Plant: Eastern Snowball - Viburnum
Viburnum · Viburnum plicatum
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Eastern snowball is a deciduous viburnum grown for the round, sterile, snowball shaped clusters of small white flowers that cover the rounded shrub in spring. It performs in full sun to partial shade in ordinary well drained garden soil. Because the flowers are sterile the snowball forms set little or no fruit, so the display is entirely a flowering one.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 12 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Eastern snowball is a deciduous viburnum grown for the round, sterile, snowball shaped clusters of small white flowers that cover the rounded shrub in spring. It performs in full sun to partial shade in ordinary well drained garden soil. Because the flowers are sterile the snowball forms set little or no fruit, so the display is entirely a flowering one.
- Flowers
- Showy sterile flowers encircle non-showy inner fertile flowers in cymes; depending on the variety, flowers can be showy or non-showy, fragrant or non-fragrant.
- Foliage
- The dark green leaves have a pleated upper surface and are deeply veined.
- Fruit
- The egg-shaped fruits are fleshy, red to black, displaying in fall.
- Bark & stems
- The bark of an adult plant can be ridged or pleated, also thin and smooth. Stems are multi-stemmed.
- Pruning
- Prune as needed after flowering.
- Native range
- China, Japan, Taiwan
