Flower Notes:
Pink (Inconspicuous small pink flowers in July)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Blue-green summer foliage; no appreciable fall color)
Stem Notes:
Brown (hollow, hairy, single to multiple stemmed, up to 1/2" in diameter)
Fruit Notes:
White (Many, somewhat lumpy, white berries (0.5" dia.), sometimes clustered, appearing in July; persist into winter)
Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to different soils, even chalky soil
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are 0.75-2" long, opposite, dark bluish green, and oblong-elliptic to rounded, with pubescence below. Slender stems.