A guide to nonnative invasive plants inventoried in the north by ...
A guide to nonnative invasive plants inventoried in the north by ...
A guide to nonnative invasive plants inventoried in the north by ...
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Viburnum opulus<br />
European cranberrybush VIOP<br />
Snowball bush<br />
Form: Deciduous shrub 3-16 ft (1-5 m) tall.<br />
Leaves: Opposite, palmately lobed and ve<strong>in</strong>ed (maplelike);<br />
marg<strong>in</strong>s with a few coarse teeth; pubescent on abaxial<br />
surface (at least on ve<strong>in</strong>s); petioles with sessile glands that<br />
are concave and wider than high.<br />
Flowers/fruit: White with narrow <strong>to</strong> broadly campanulate<br />
corollas, <strong>in</strong> large clusters; outer flowers somewhat larger and<br />
with broadly flar<strong>in</strong>g corollas. Fruit a reddish drupe about ½<br />
<strong>in</strong>. (1 cm) <strong>in</strong> diameter.<br />
Habitat: Moist <strong>to</strong> wet soils along lake marg<strong>in</strong>s, slopes, or<br />
open woods; also found <strong>in</strong> cultivated fields.<br />
Similar species: Cranberry viburnum or highbush-cranberry<br />
(Viburnum trilobum or V. opulus var. americanum) has<br />
stalked petiole glands that are rounded and higher than<br />
wide.<br />
Notes
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