Flowers:
White (Creamy-white flowers in 2-3.5" dia. flat-topped cymes in May)
Foliage:
Green (Attractive, dark glossy green summer foliage); Red-Violet (Red to reddish-purple fall color)
Fruit:
Black (Ellipsoidal, blue-black berries in fall; attractive to birds)
Soil:
Widely adapted to different soils, including rocky, limestone soils
Range:
Pennsylvania to Arkansas and Missouri
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (2-5" long and wide) closely resemble Viburnum dentatum, and are opposite, simple, somewhat rounded, and coarsely dentate with soft, often reddish, pubescence underneath. Petioles are 0.5-2" long, sometimes with glandular hairs. Handsome, shining, gray to brown exfoliating bark (unlike V. dentatum).
