Red chokeberry offers spring flower clusters, red autumn foliage and bright red fruits that can remain into winter.
- Height
- 182–366 cm / 6–12 ft
- Spread
- 91–153 cm / 3–5 ft
- Light
- Full sun / Partial shade
- Soil moisture
- Moist, well-drained / Wet
- Flowering
- Spring
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Maintenance
- Low
- USDA zones
- 3a–9b
Planting
Use full sun for the strongest flowering and fruiting. This shrub tolerates damp ground and occasional flooding, making it useful in a rain garden, informal hedge or shrub group.
Care
Remove root suckers if you want to keep one defined shrub. Alternatively, allow it to form a colony where a spreading screen is useful.
Before planting: Deer can damage the plant; it is not a reliable choice where browsing pressure is high.
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Sources & photo credit
Plant reference: NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox. Content checked . Flowering seasons vary with local climate; USDA zones describe winter cold tolerance.
- Red chokeberry: Andrey Zharkikh · CC BY 2.0. Resized, converted to WebP and cropped for display.
- Purple chokeberry: Maja Dumat · CC BY 2.0. Resized, converted to WebP and cropped for display.
- Adam's needle yucca: Carl Lewis · CC BY 2.0. Resized, converted to WebP and cropped for display.
- Bearberry: Walter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized, converted to WebP and cropped for display.