Plant · P-1031

American Beautyberry

Callicarpa americana

American Beautyberry is an arching deciduous shrub of rich woods, moist thickets and swamp edges across the southeastern and south-central United States, reaching three to nine feet tall and four to six feet wide on a taproot. Small pink to white flowers cluster along the stems in early summer, followed by strikingly bright magenta-purple berries that ring the branches from late summer through winter and are an important food source for songbirds, especially bobwhite quail. It prefers part shade and consistently moist, well-drained soil, and it can lose leaves and fruit early during prolonged drought.