Form:

Size:

Life Span:

long-lived perennial

Flower Color:

Fruit Color:

Phenology:

Noted For:

Recommended Uses:

Considerations:

Clonal: it usually sends up sprouts from its roots to form thickets.
The wood is somewhat brittle, but it will grow back if cut to the ground.

Light:

Moisture Tolerance:

Usually moist, occasional inundation ---- to ---- Not wet but not extremely dry

Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:

Unknown

Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:

Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Soil or Other Substrate:

Sand, Organic

Suitable to Grow In:

8A,8B,9A,9B

Wildlife:

It is a host plant for the Red-banded Hairstreak butterfly  ( NC State Extension Service )

Fuits are eaten by birds, especially yellow-rumped warblers (which are very efficient at digesting the waxy fruits), in the fall and winter ( NC State Extension Service )

Native Habitats: