About This Plant
This deciduous shrub with dark green, elliptical leaves will produce bright red berries that persist throughout winter and into spring. A female plant will produce small-greenish white flowers, and a male plant is needed to help pollinate a female plant to produce the berries, which birds will eat as a last resort. It's a slow-growing shrub, but will sucker to form colonies. It seems that the more sun it receives, the more it flowers and fruits.
Plant Details
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Benefits
- Wildlife Benefits
Plant Facts
The native Winterberry Holly is often difficult to find at commercial nurseries because of the many cultivars that produce more abundant, showier fruits
Alternate Names
Common Winterberry, Winterberry, Black Alder, Feverbark, Swamp Winterberry
