29+ Symphoricarpos Albus Flower

It is native to north america where it occurs across much of canada and the northern and western united states.

Symphoricarpos albus flower. It is native to dry rocky wooded slopes banks and forests from nova scotia to british columbia south to oregon new mexico illinois and virginia. Symphoricarpos albus is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name common snowberry. Prefer moderate watering sunny and semi shady places. This species is sometimes known as waxberry white coralberry or white thin leaved or few flowered snowberry. One variety symphoricarpos albus var. Laevigatus is cultivated for planting in the garden but it can suffer from rusts and other pathogens. Symphoricarpos albus is a deciduoud bush that reaches up to 2 meters.

It s a great addition to many types of gardens and is a showy globe shape for the landscape. The shrub blooms in spring with small but dense clusters of bell shaped white flowers at the ends of the branches. Symphoricarpos leaves are 1 5 5 cm 0 59 1 97 in long rounded entire or with one or two lobes at the base. Birds and mammals consume the white berries and use the shrubs for cover and nesting sites. While common snowberry shrubs symphoricarpos albus may not be the most beautiful or best behaved shrubs in the garden they have features that keep them interesting throughout most of the year. It is one of two native symphoricarpos species in minnesota the other being wolfberry symphoricarpos occidentalis which has larger and more numerous stalkless flowers with widely spreading lobes revealing the long stamens and styles where snowberry has smaller short stalked flowers with lobes that are not spreading hiding the stamens and styles plus has fruit a brighter white and about twice the size of wolfberry. Noted for its very ornamental pure white waxy berries symphoricarpos albus snowberry is a thicket forming deciduous shrub with upright to arching branches that is amazingly adaptable and undemanding.

Blooms in may july with white flowers. Symphoricarpos albus commonly called snowberry is a bushy rounded deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3 6 tall and as wide. In early summer a profusion of small bell shaped white to pink flowers are borne in clusters in the leaf axils. The common snowberry symphoricarpos albus is a deciduous shrub that produces pink flowers and white fruit. Symphori means bear together carpos means fruits referring to the clustered fruits. Albus meaning white and the common name snowberry also refers to the white fruits. The flowers are small greenish white to pink in small clusters of 5 15 together in most species solitary or in pairs in some e g.