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Palmer's snowberry

Symphoricarpos palmeri

Palmer's snowberry is a trailing or sprawling native shrub of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, grown mainly for its white berries and pink flowers. It is hardy and adaptable, needing good drainage and tolerating dry conditions once established.

Family
Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry between waterings; established plants need little supplemental water.
Soil
Well-drained soil, tolerant of poor, rocky or alkaline ground.
Temperature
Hardy to around -30 °C; tolerates heat well.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Toxic: Berries and other parts of snowberry plants contain saponins and other compounds that can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea if eaten in quantity.
Native range
E. Arizona to NW. Oklahoma and W. Texas
Climate
temperate

About

Symphoricarpos palmeri, common name Palmer's snowberry, is a North American species of plants in the Honeysuckle Family. It has been found in the southwestern United States (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and western Texas), as well as in the Mexican State of Chihuahua inside Basaseachic Falls National Park.

Symphoricarpos palmeri is a trailing shrub up to 3 meters (10 feet) long, with erect or ascending branches. Flowers are pink, funnel-shaped or tubular. Fruit is white.

Other Symphoricarpos plants

Sharpleaf snowberry · Common snowberry · McKittrick's snowberry · Symphoricarpos guatemalensis · Trailing snowberry · Desert snowberry · Pink snowberry · Creeping snowberry · Western snowberry · Coralberry · Mountain snowberry · Symphoricarpos parishii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symphoricarpos palmeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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