Red Chokeberry
Aronia arbutifolia
Pink and white flowers from February into May, worked by mining bees. It grows wild in 87 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist to wet soil
- Size
- 9 ft to 12 ft tall, 4 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Feb to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 20 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 68 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 14 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 6 kinds of birds
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena crataegi), Mining bee (Andrena milwaukeensis), Mining bee (Andrena vicina), Mining bee (Andrena forbesii)
Grows well with
Common Sneezeweed
Fringed Sedge
Virginia Iris
Carolina Phlox
Virginia Sweetspire
Sweet Woodreed
Lyreleaf SageFacts from the Quercus record for Aronia arbutifolia.