American Beautyberry

Fruits are magenta. There is a white-fruited/white-flowered variety, uncommonly found naturally in Florida, that is sold occasionally.



Specimen plant, mass planting, casual shrub screen

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Cut back in winter to encourage blooming and good form.

Many bird species consume the fruit. including catbirds, mockinbirds, and robins.

Dry mesic hardwoods, xeric hammock, scrubby flatwoods, flatwoods, disturbed dry-moist woods.

• Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Hurricane wind resistance
• Larval host for for spring azure butterflies and snowberry clearwing moths.
• Attracts various pollinators, especially bees.  Documented bees include Agapostemon splendens, Augochlora pura, Dialictus placidensis, Halictus ligatus, Megachile brevis pseudobrevis and the none-native Apis mellifera (honeybee) (Deyrup et al. 2002).