Purple chokeberry combines white spring flowers, wine-red autumn leaves and dark purple fruits that can persist through winter.
- Height
- 243–366 cm / 8–12 ft
- Spread
- 182–275 cm / 6–9 ft
- Light
- Full sun / Partial shade
- Soil moisture
- Dry / Moist, well-drained
- Flowering
- Spring
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Maintenance
- Low
- USDA zones
- 4a–7b
Planting
Choose full sun for the best flowers and fruit, with room for a large shrub or thicket. It tolerates dry and damp sites, including occasional flooding.
Care
Remove root suckers when you want to keep a defined shrub. Leave them where a spreading hedge or colony suits the space, such as an informal mixed border.
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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.
- Purple chokeberry: Maja Dumat · CC BY 2.0. Resized, converted to WebP and cropped for display.
- Red chokeberry: Andrey Zharkikh · 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.