Black Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa
White flowers from May into June, worked by mining bees. It grows wild in 60 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Average to wet soil
- Size
- About 6 ft tall, 4.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, May to Jun
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 24 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare 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
Royal Fern
Sweet WoodreedFacts from the Quercus record for Aronia melanocarpa.