Partridge Berry

This  little plant produces two flowers with ovaries that fuse into a single fruit.



Typically grown as a curiosity. This is a very small plant that acts as a groundcover with the caveat that the plants are very small. Keep it in a natural forested setting or establish in such an area.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Birds  and small mammals consume the berries which mature in the fall and are retained through the winter and spring.

Hammocks, upland hardwood forests, upland mixed forest, seep slopes, second bottom and levees in floodplains.

• Showy flowers, Showy fruits, Interesting foliage
• Bumblebees pollinate the flowers. Cross-pollination, required for seed set, is controlled by factors that permit germination of pollen from long anthers only on the stigmas of a different flower with a long styles; conversely, pollen from short anthers can germinate only on the stigmas of a different flower with a short styles. (VNPS).