Name: American BeautyBerry

Botanical Name: Callicarpa

Zone: 6-11

Soil: Average.

Exposure: Full Sun, light shade

Bloom Time and Color: Pink/White Early to Mid Summer

Description: A native shrub that grows 3-5 ft. tall and usually just as wide. It has long, arching branches and yellow-green fall foliage, but its most striking feature is the clusters of glossy, iridescent-purple fruit which hug the branches at leaf axils in the fall and winter.

Care: Doesn't need much care. Easy to grow, very hardy.