Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

1620
Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Adoxaceae
Viburnum cassinoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Caprifoliaceae
Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Caprifoliaceae
174-05-002
Viburnum cassinoides

Common Name:
Witherod, Shonny Haw, Northern Wild Raisin

Shrub
Perennial
Deciduous

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in bogs, moist forests, high elevation forests & outcrops, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet ...Moist ...Variable ...Dry

Leaves:
Simple
Opposite

Flower:
Spring/Summer
White/Pinkish
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens
Inferior ovary

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Pink to Blue
Drupe

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p108
Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p265
Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p098
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p127?
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p302
Trees of the Southeastern US p102
Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p182
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p240
Wildflowers of Tennessee p269
Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p15




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image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm060508_172


May
Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm060508_173


May
Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
Bill Sharpton      gws_witherodviburnum


June
Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Bald

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm090607_087


June
Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
Patrick D. McMillan      pdmvcassinioides_habtgfm


June
Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
Patrick D. McMillan      pdmvcassinioides_lvl


June
Avery County NC

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      s090607_05


June
Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 5-11cm long, acuminate or rarely acute, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm0508c_22


August
Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm080924_081


September
Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm080928_017


September
Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm080928_020


September
Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Fruits at first pink to red, then deep blue, nearly black & glaucous, per Trees of the Southeastern US.

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm080928_041


September
Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm080928_043


September
Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Both terminal and lateral buds often much elongated, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US, A Winter Guide.

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
JK Marlow      jkm080928_045


September
Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

image of Viburnum cassinoides, image of Viburnum cassinoides
Ron Lance      rwl1620_a


September

Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

 

"Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years." — Wendell Berry