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New Beginnings Garden

Western Ninebark - Physocarpus capitatus

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Growth
  • Deciduous shrub, to 5-20 ft tall, less width, open, straggly, angled branches, bark exfoliating in long irregular strips.  Leaves alternate, simple,  2-5 in long, palmately lobed and veined, lobes pointed, margins doubly serrated.  Flowers in late spring, small, 5 white petals, about 30 stamens, 3-5 pistils, in dense clusters.  Fruit small,  reddish to brown, about .25 in long.
  • Sun to shade, best in acid soil, requires some watering.  Propagates easily from cuttings.
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 5   Native to from British Columbia south to central California and east to western Montana.  Common along stream banks, lake margins, swampy areas and in moist woods.