Plant: Pearl Glam® Beautyberry
Beautyberry · Callicarpa Pearl Glam 'NCCX2'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A compact, erect to rounded beautyberry 2 to 4 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide with purple green foliage marked by dark purple veins. Small pink to lavender flowers open in clusters in the leaf axils in summer and attract bees and other insects, and lilac violet berries about one eighth inch across ripen in September and stay showy through fall leaf drop and partially into winter. The berries have a high moisture content and feed more than 40 species of birds. It grows in full sun or partial shade in well drained soil, is deer resistant and relatively free of insects and disease, and works as a border, low hedge or mass planting.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 4 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-8b
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A compact, erect to rounded beautyberry 2 to 4 feet tall and 3 to 5 feet wide with purple green foliage marked by dark purple veins. Small pink to lavender flowers open in clusters in the leaf axils in summer and attract bees and other insects, and lilac violet berries about one eighth inch across ripen in September and stay showy through fall leaf drop and partially into winter. The berries have a high moisture content and feed more than 40 species of birds. It grows in full sun or partial shade in well drained soil, is deer resistant and relatively free of insects and disease, and works as a border, low hedge or mass planting.
- Flowers
- Small pink to lavender cymes carried in clusters in the leaf axils in summer.
- Foliage
- Purple green leaves with dark purple veins, elliptic to oblong and 1 to 3 inches long, turning gold in fall.
- Fruit
- Lilac violet berries about one eighth inch across that ripen in September and remain showy through fall leaf drop and partially into winter.
