Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
The upright oval crown common in the young plants of this elegant shrub often becomes, with age, irregular with drooping lower branches. Creamy white flowers give way to pink berry-like fruits, edible when ripened to deep blue-black. Native mainly to thickets and woods, it is common throughout the Mid-Atlantic* (except the northern half of Pennsylvania).
*It is native in DC and common in DE, MD, and throughout VA. It is mostly found in the southern half of PA. You can view the VA counties in which it has been reported here.
Learn more about Viburnum prunifolium.
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