Description ²

• Shape: Multi- stemmed shrub
• Leaf/Branch Arrangement: Alternate
• Flower: White rounded cluster
• Leaves: roughly spade shaped, 3 lobed, coarsely toothed, 1 ½-5 inches long, 1-3 inches wide
• Bark: brown, mostly smooth, turns gray, older bark peels in papery strips
• Fruit/Seed: 3 to 5 inflated, green-red, 1/3 inch long capsules
• Height: 2-8 feet
• Flowering: May August
• Habitat:cliffs, shores, bluffs, steam banks, moist woods

Sources and Credits

1. (c) James H. Miller & Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.org, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physocarpus_opulifolius_1120565.jpg
2. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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