HRT 212 Plant Walk 8: Viburnums and Barberries Preview

Helmond Pillar barberry

Amur honeysuckle

Note deep fissured gray bark

Spicebush

Note green twigs with small lenticels, very round buds

Twigs are fragrant!

early yellow flowers

Bugleweed, carpet bugle, ajuga

ground cover (non-vining)

sad looking in winter

green and purple forms

Cranberry viburnum

Note maple-like three lobed leave (hanging on dry from lasdt year)

clusters of red berries

Weigela

multi stemmed shrub with numerous trumpet-shaped flowers

note elongated capsules all over

Note reddish stems

thorns

bright red fruit

Note compact form

dark reddish stems

thorns

Arrowwood Viburnum

Note very upright stems, many with little or no lateral brainching

lacks tomentose