Viburnum Species, Nannyberry, Sheepberry, Sweet Viburnum

It is a good quality native shrub that is mostly clean and neat. It can sucker some. Handsome, shiny, cherry-like leaves about 4" long or...Read More more. It often gets hit hard by mildew at the end of the season. If not, it often gets a good red fall color. Long handsome buds and young bark is smooth and shiny. Nice big flattish flower clusters in May bear blue-black fruit that is loved by birds in late summer and early Autumn. Some are sold by a good number of big nurseries so that it is occassionally found in landscapes, but it is not a well-known plant to the general public. Makes a good deciduous screen. Cantigny Park in Wheaton, Illinois has had several specimens in tree form with a single trunk and about 20 feet high.

I have seen them only occasionally as a small street tree in the Boston area. The Massachusetts Extension Service lists the lentago amo...Read Moreng native trees that grow best in the sun. Another common name that is not listed above is Sweet Viburnum. I'd like to know if there is another viburnum that can grow thirty feet tall.

This is a large shrub/small tree that is best used north of (colder) zone 6. It suffers in the heat/humidity of central KY, and often de...Read Morefoliates in the summer due to powder mildew susceptibility. Viburnum prunifolium and Viburnum rufidulum are much better choices for central KY and south.

Viburnum lentago performs much better north of the Ohio River, and fabulously in the upper midwest tier of states.

Very adaptable...birds love it.