American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana

American Beautyberry is a gorgeous woody shrub that can grow up to fifteen feet tall in favorable moisture conditions, but it usually averages five to ten feet tall and just as wide.

This shrub likes part shade and rich moist soils and it works very well as an understory plant. It can be propagated by seeds or by tip cuttings.

The long arching branches have large leaves in pairs spaced along the branch. It blooms in the spring with small pink flowers clustered at the base of the leaves.

During summer the flowers turn into large clusters of berries, which remain green until fall when the leaves turn a lovely yellow-green and the berries a beautiful rose or burgundy pink, transforming the shrub into a delight for the eyes.