Plant: Pearl Glam® Beautyberry

Beautyberry · Callicarpa Pearl Glam 'NCCX2'

$54.00

Size: 3 gal

Light

Full Sun

Bloom

Summer

Mature size

4 ft tall5 ft wide

More about this plant

A compact, erect to rounded beautyberry 2 to 4 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide with purple green foliage marked by dark purple veins. Small pink to lavender flowers open in clusters in the leaf axils in summer and attract bees and other insects, and lilac violet berries about one eighth inch across ripen in September and stay showy through fall leaf drop and partially into winter. The berries have a high moisture content and feed more than 40 species of birds. It grows in full sun or partial shade in well drained soil, is deer resistant and relatively free of insects and disease, and works as a border, low hedge or mass planting.

Full Sun
Grows to 4 ft tall and 5 ft wide
Blooms in summer
Hardy in USDA zones 5a-8b
Deciduous foliage
Native plant

Plant description

A compact, erect to rounded beautyberry 2 to 4 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide with purple green foliage marked by dark purple veins. Small pink to lavender flowers open in clusters in the leaf axils in summer and attract bees and other insects, and lilac violet berries about one eighth inch across ripen in September and stay showy through fall leaf drop and partially into winter. The berries have a high moisture content and feed more than 40 species of birds. It grows in full sun or partial shade in well drained soil, is deer resistant and relatively free of insects and disease, and works as a border, low hedge or mass planting.

Flowers: Small pink to lavender cymes carried in clusters in the leaf axils in summer.
Foliage: Purple green leaves with dark purple veins, elliptic to oblong and 1 to 3 inches long, turning gold in fall.
Fruit: Lilac violet berries about one eighth inch across that ripen in September and remain showy through fall leaf drop and partially into winter.
Pruning: Can be pruned back to 6 inches in early spring to promote compactness.
Native range: Hybrid of Callicarpa dichotoma and C. kwangtungensis, developed at the NC State Mountain Crop Improvement Lab with Spring Meadow Nursery.