American Beautyberry
Callicarpa americana
It grows wild in 55 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 5.5 ft to 8 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, pink, purple and white
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 14 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 2 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 10 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 3 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Swamp Azalea
Narrowleaf Sunflower
New England Aster
Dwarf Azalea
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Pink Azalea
Inkberry
Facts from the Quercus record for Callicarpa americana.