Sparkleberry

A profuse bloomer. Use for natural landscapes and wildlife habitat areas. Does well under a high pine canopy.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Fruit is consumed by birds and other wildlife.

Dry sites. Xeric hammock, dryf mesic hardwoods, may be in upper edges of floodplains, overgrown flatwoods, coastal dunes, sandhill, scrubby sandhill.

• Interesting bark, Fall color, Showy flowers
• Larval host for striped hairstreak (Satyrium liparops).
• Attracts many pollinators; especially valuable to native bees.