Flower Notes:
White (Flowers appearing in May as 2-4" dia. flat-topped cymes with a ring of showy sterile flowers surrounding a center of inconspicuous fertile flowers)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Glossy summer foliage); Yellow (Yellowish to reddish fall foliage, inconsistent)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Berries in 3" dia. clusters are showy beginning in late summer, arise from inner fertile flowers; shrivel like raisins from fall into winter)
Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to soils, although prefers moist, wet sites
Range:
Europe, North Africa, and North Asia
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Opposite, 2-4" long 3-lobed leaves resemble those of maple. Leaves more toothed than Viburnum trilobum, the American Cranberrybush Viburnum. A few distinct disk-like glands on grooved leaf petiole near blade. (V. trilobum has stalked, dome-shaped sticky glands.)