American Strawberry-bush

Shady settings. Interesting for its green twigs and red warty fruits. In good habitats it can form dense clones.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Birds and other wildlife consume seed.

Seep slopes, rich woods, hammocks, upland mixed forest, bluffs, floodplains.

• Interesting bark, Showy fruits
• Insect pollinated, especially by bees.