Audubon Native Blackhaw Viburnum and native birds
Native Blackhaw Viburnum
Native Regions map for Blackhaw Viburnum
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird
Audubon Native Blackhaw Viburnum and native birds
Native Blackhaw Viburnum
Native Regions map for Blackhaw Viburnum
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird

Audubon® Native Blackhaw Viburnum Big

Bower & Branch Trees and Plants

Viburnum prunifolium

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FEATURES:
  • May Benefit & Attract: Thrushes, orioles, warblers, grosbeaks, and woodpeckers
  • The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow.
  • This bird-friendly native plant provides food and shelter for local and migrating birds and other wildlife
  • All Audubon® branded plants are grown 100% Neonic-free by Bower & Branch, making these plants safer for the birds and safer for the environment.
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Growth Facts

  • Hardiness Zone: 3-9
  • Mature Height: 10-15' tall
  • Mature Width: 6-10' wide
  • Exposure: Full Sun/Part Sun
  • Spacing: 6-10' apart

Why plant Audubon® Native Blackhaw Viburnum Big?

The most treelike of our native Viburnums, Blackhaw Viburnum makes a grand specimen, and it is even more beautiful when songbirds are flitting among its branches, dining on the sweet black fruits. Robins, catbirds, bluebirds, cardinals, Cedar Waxwings, vireos, Purple Finches, flycatchers, and White-Throated Sparrows are some of the many birds that are known to feed on the berries. Homo sapiens may forage on them, too—sometimes making them into jelly when there’s a bumper crop! A treat for you as well as the birds, Blackhaw Viburnum will paint a pretty picture in your garden with its frosty white flowers in late spring and with its burgundy foliage in fall.

Blackhaw Viburnum is native to much of the eastern United States and is especially abundant in the Lower Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic States. You may encounter it on a hike through the woods or near thickets in those areas. Blackhaw Viburnum supports local wildlife not only with the berries it bears. Many moths lay their eggs on this species, such as the brown scoopwing, common pug, pink prominent, crocus geometer, and horrid zale. In spring, the delightfully fragrant flowers nourish native insects, such as mason bees, cuckoo bees, miner bees, hoverflies, butterflies, and hummingbird moths.

How to use Audubon® Native Blackhaw Viburnum Big in the landscape?

Left to its own devices, Blackhaw Viburnum typically becomes a large, dense, suckering shrub (which makes for great bird habitat). However, it can be trained to one trunk and grown as a tree. It may get even larger when grown this way. The national champion Blackhaw Viburnum, in Virginia, is 35 feet tall and has a trunk that’s two feet thick.

Planting Zones

Hardiness Zone: 3-9

How To Plant Audubon® Native Blackhaw Viburnum Big

Site Blackhaw Viburnum in full sun for the greatest flower production. It blooms less in part shade but will grow happily there as well. Give it good, loamy soil if possible. It prefers rich soil, though this adaptable plant will accept most well-drained sites without complaint.

How To Water

Provide water on a weekly basis and mulch with wood chips, bark, or pine straw to conserve moisture and moderate temperatures in the root zone.

How To Fertilize

Incorporate Elements Starter Plant food granular form into the soil when planting. If planting in spring or summer, start fertilizing late fall using Elements Starter Plant food granular form on an annual basis each late fall. Continue this for the first three years to get your plant well established.

How To Prune

Prune your Blackhaw Viburnum shortly after the flowers fade to avoid sacrificing the next year’s blooms.


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