| Viburnum rafinesqueanum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Dipsacales |
| Family: | Adoxaceae |
| Genus: | Viburnum |
| Species: | V. rafinesqueanum |
| Binomial name | |
| Viburnum rafinesqueanum | |
Viburnum rafinesqueanum, the downy arrowwood, is a deciduous medium-sized (typically about 2 meters tall) shrub native to the Eastern United States and Canada from Quebec and Manitoba south to Georgia and west to Oklahoma. Downy arrow-wood produces ornamental but slightly malodorous flowers in Spring. [1] [2]
Viburnum rafinesqueanum has opposite, simple leaves and dark blue fruit in berry-like drupes. Foliage turns orange-red in late fall. [3] Southern arrow-wood ( V. dentatum ) is similar, except that it blooms later and has broader, more coarsely toothed leaves and longer petioles. [2]
Other similar species are smooth arrowwood ( V. recognitum ) and Carolina arrowwood ( V. carolinianum ). [1]