Blackhaw, Stag-bush Scientific Name: Viburnum prunifolium
Description: An erect bushy shrub or sometimes a tree 10-28' high, with a trunk diameter of 10". Bark gray brown, rough with short, narrow, rounded ridges broken laterally into small sections; it is sometimes used as a tonic and for other medicinal properties which it possesses.
Habitat: On dry ground.
Range: From Connecticut and New York west to Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and south 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. |
