Viburnum ashei Jenks Growing a nursery-propagated plant is

Growing a nursery-propagated plant is a quiet way to keep an uncommon native in gardens rather than leaving the whole story to a few threatened wild colonies

then dipped silk threads through the dye dozens of times before setting the color in iron-rich mud

and both open showy pink to red flowers over lovely glossy foliage

from New Brunswick south to Florida and west to Texas and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

this is a shrub to plant and largely forget

Viburnum ashei Jenks Growing a nursery-propagated plant isThis deciduous shrub with small serrated leaves, white flowers, and blue black fruit may be a Deep South form or subspecies of Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum). Taxonomy confusing and sometimes listed as Viburnum dentatum var. scabrellum, Viburnum semitomentosum, etc., it is found on more well drained upland sites than where one would expect to find Viburnum dentatum.