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Parish's snowberry is a low, spreading shrub native to dry parts of western North America and Baja California, grown mainly for its white berries and as a tough groundcover. It needs good drainage and tolerates drought once established.
Symphoricarpos parishii, or Parish's snowberry, is a North American species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family. It had been found in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Baja California.
Symphoricarpos parishii is a low spreading shrub. Stems are up to 100 cm (40 inches) long, sometimes leaning against other vegetation. Leaves are up to 2 cm (0.8 inch) long, dark green on the upper surface but lighter green underneath. It has pink, bell-shaped flowers and white fruits.
Sharpleaf snowberry · Common snowberry · McKittrick's snowberry · Symphoricarpos guatemalensis · Trailing snowberry · Desert snowberry · Pink snowberry · Creeping snowberry · Western snowberry · Coralberry · Mountain snowberry · Palmer's snowberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Symphoricarpos parishii 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.
