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Southern Arrowwood

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Scientific Name: Viburnum dentatum
Description: A familiar, slender shrub 3-8' or sometimes 15' high, with blackish sepia brown or ashen brown bark, the smooth new twigs or shoots often straight and arrowlike.
Habitat: Common in moist situation and in thickets.
Range: From western New York and southern Ontario, Michigan, and Minnesota, and south, especially through the mountains, to northern Georgia.
Type: Shrub

Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: The Dow Gardens Archives, Dow Gardens from www.forestryimages.org.