Callicarpa americana prophouse-summer-2026 Site this plant where the

Site this plant where the cinnamon bark can be read at close range

so allow room for a substantial evergreen shrub

dressed in lustrous dark green leaves that turn clear yellow in fall

Federally listed as threatened since 1991

Callicarpa americana prophouse-summer-2026 Site this plant where theThe genus name says it: Callicarpa, from the Greek kallos, beauty, and karpos, fruit, beautiful fruit, a genus named for exactly what it does. Callicarpa americana, the American beautyberry, is the southeastern native that gives the genus a calling card. From late August into November, the plant sets dense clusters of small drupes in a luminous magenta purple, a color that registers as almost unreal in the late summer landscape, somewhere between