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Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Symphoricarpos albus

Common snowberry · also Snowberry

16
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
0.4 in
median trunk (1 cm, 5 measured)
7.0 yr
median age (69% have a planting date)

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Common snowberry is a flowering shrub native to North America. It is browsed by some animals and is planted for ornamental and ecological purposes, but its berries are poisonous to humans.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    117.0 yr—
  2. Kingston · Canada
    5—0.4 in

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Conifer Forests

  • Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
  • British Columbia coastal conifer forests
  • Central British Columbia Mountain forests
  • Central Pacific Northwest coastal forests
  • Colorado Rockies forests
  • Northern California coastal forests
  • Northern Pacific Alaskan coastal forests

Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands

  • California Central Valley grasslands
  • Central US forest-grasslands transition
  • Central Tallgrass prairie
  • Northern Tallgrass prairie

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Western Great Lakes forests

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