Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is a staff favorite, with showy clusters of pink flowers in the spring and bright purple fruit throughout the fall and winter. This woody, evergreen, perennial shrub's showy purple berries are a good fall food source for songbirds and humans. A favorite of orioles, wood warblers, and waxwings, this is a surefire winner that grows in partial shade. Its showy spring clusters of white flowers are a great nectar source for bees. Further to our north, this plant is also a food source for Spring Azure and Snowberry Clearwing caterpillars. This shrub grows best in moist soil with full sun to partial shade.
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