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Callicarpa americana, commonly called the American beautyberry, is an open-habitat, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards. American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds.
Shepherdia, commonly called buffaloberry [1] or bullberry, is a genus of small shrubs in the Elaeagnaceae family. The plants are native to northern and western North America. [2] They are non-legume nitrogen fixers. Shepherdia is dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate plants. [3]
The rowans (/ ˈ r aʊ ə n z / ROW-ənz or / ˈ r oʊ ə n z / ROH-ənz) [1] or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in the genus Sorbus of the rose family, Rosaceae.They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the Himalaya, southern Tibet and parts of western China, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. [2]
Plant mountain ash in late fall or very early spring while the plant is dormant. Dig a hole about twice as wide as the root ball or container and about the same depth as the root ball.
Big sagebrush is a coarse, many-branched, pale-grey shrub with yellow flowers and silvery-grey foliage, which is generally 0.5–3 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –10 feet) tall. [3] A deep taproot 1–4 m (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 –13 ft) in length, coupled with laterally spreading roots near the surface, allows sagebrush to gather water from both surface precipitation and the water table several meters beneath.
It is a deciduous, dicot shrub growing 0.5–2.5 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –8 ft) tall. The bark is smooth and reddish grey in colour, the twigs glabrous. [9]The leaves are opposite, elliptic in shape, 6–10 centimetres (2 + 1 ⁄ 4 –4 in) long, unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed, jaggedly serrated, and turning red in autumn; their underside glabrous, especially along the veins.
The plants are generally slow-growing with some species growing to 25 m (82 ft) tall. The type species is the European holly Ilex aquifolium described by Linnaeus. [2] Plants in this genus have simple, alternate glossy leaves, frequently with a spiny leaf margin. The inconspicuous flower is greenish white, with four petals.
Chokeberry. A cultivar of another native shrub that is grown for its berries is Iroquois Black Beauty Black Chokeberry ‘Morton' (Aronia melanocarpa). Gardeners use it as a landscape plant as well.