Southern Arrowwood 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. |