Callicarpa

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CREATING A WILDLIFE  HABITAT

Violet Ombré Berries

The mature purple berries feed cardinals and finches, and the shrub offers them a protective site.   

American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana is a native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards. American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries.

Plant deciduous trees and shrubs along the south and west side of your house to provide shade in the summer, and, all the sun to provide solar heat in the winter.

During the Texas 2011 drought, I experimented with a planting of beautyberry to increase our use of Texas natives.  

The beautyberry is doing well this year and the dramatic purple berries are living up to the name.  

Beautyberries are possibly best used in a naturalized setting. I have included a White berried beautyberry (Callicarpa american var. lactea) in a corner of the backyard, underneath native oaks. 

Callicarpa L.  

      

Taxonomy:  Verbena Family Verbenaceae the taxonomy is undergoing many changes and depending on the system used, the beautyberry can be found in the Lamiaceae family | Mint Family in updated charts.

Additional Information:                                     

• Botanical Prints 
• LBJWC 
• TAMU    
• USDA
• How to prune for beautiful berries, from Fine Gardening
  

Explore the Genus Callicarpa.                                    

ACCEPTED SPECIES (ITIS)
Callicarpa americana L. – American beautyberry	southeastern United States from Texas to Maryland; Cuba, Bermuda, Bahamas
Callicarpa ampla Schauer – capa rosa, caparosa	Puerto Rico
Callicarpa candicans (Burm. f.) Hochr.	China, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia, Micronesia
Callicarpa dichotoma (Lour.) K. Koch – purple beautyberry	China, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia, Micronesia
Callicarpa formosana Rolfe
Callicarpa japonica Thunb. – Japanese callicarpa	China, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan
Callicarpa lamii Hosok.	Mariana Islands

References for the Genus Callicarpa.                       

Bradley, Steve. The Pruner's Bible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pruning Every Plant in Your Garden. London: New Holland, 2006. Print.
Callicarpa Dichotoma 'duet'. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, 2008. Internet resource.
Hyams, Edward. Ornamental Shrubs for Temperate Zone Gardens. , 1967. Print.
Levine, Ketzel, and Rene Eisenbart. Plant This!: Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2000. Print.
Marshall, William; Planting and Rural Ornament : Being a Second Edition, with Large Additions, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise; 48-109; Cambridge University Press : Cambridge
Paluch, Gretchen E, and Joel R. Coats. Recent Developments in Invertebrate Repellents. , 2011. Internet resource.
Zampardo, Mark. Guide to Identifying Trees and Shrubs Plants A-L: Includes Conifers, Vines and Groundcovers. Cork: BookBaby, 2014. Print.
Fire Effects FEIS     https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/calame/all.html
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website - Lamiales". Missouri Botanical Garden.
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants - Callicarpa". United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A. & Seberg, O. 2007: Flowering Plant Families of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Leeratiwong, C., Chantaranothai, P. & Paton, A.J. (2009). A synopsis of the genus Callicarpa L. (Lamiaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 37: 36-58.
Bramley, G.L. (2009). The genus Callicarpa(Lamiaceae) on Borneo. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 159: 416-455.
Bramley, G.L.C. (2013). The genus Callicarpa(Lamiaceae) in the Philippines. Kew Bulletin 68: 369-418.
Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 4, 紫珠属 zi zhu shu,Callicarpa Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 111. 1753.
Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map
"Learning from our elders: Folk Remedy Yields Mosquito-Thwarting Compound". Agricultural Research. Agricultural Research Service. February 6, 2006.
Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes University Of Mississippi (ScienceDaily) July 3, 2006
Species Information". sun.ars-grin.gov.
Cantrell, C. L.; Klun, J. A.; Bryson, C. T.; Kobaisy, M.; Duke, S. O. (2005). "Isolation and Identification of Mosquito Bite Deterrent Terpenoids from Leaves of American (Callicarpa americana) and Japanese (Callicarpa japonica) Beautyberry". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 53 (15): 5948–53. doi:10.1021/jf0509308. PMID 16028979.
CoL	Species 2000 Catalog of Life	https://www.catalogueoflife.org/
ITIS	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (USGS and Smithsonian	itis.gov
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life	https://eol.org/
BONAP (distribution maps)	Biota of North America	http://www.bonap.org
BONAP	Biota of North America	https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214613085-SCIOPS.html
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility	https://www.gbif.org/
USDA (maps)	United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database	https://plants.usda.gov/home
ARS-GRIN	Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)	https://www.ars-grin.gov/
LJWC	Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas Native Plant Database	www.wildflower.org/plants
TAMU (Texas)	Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas (Native trees)	https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/texasnativetrees/
UofTX (Texas)	The University of Texas, Billie L. Turner Plant Resource Center	http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/K12/
iNat	California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society	https://www.inaturalist.org/
GSPC	Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)	http://www.theplantlist.org/
WFO	World Flora Online (WFO)	www.worldfloraonline.org
MBG	Missouri Botanical Garden	https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
NYBG	The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)	https://www.nybg.org/
RBGE	The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)	http://www.rbge.org.uk/
RBG	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	https://www.kew.org/
IPNI	International Plant Name Index	IPNI.org
(wetlands)	U. S. Army Corp of Engineers Wetlands, Vermont, N H.	http://wetland-plants.usace.army.mil/nwpl_static/v34/home/home.html
NAEB BRIT	Native American Ethnobotany (BRIT and University of Michigan - Dearborn) (SYOR)	http://naeb.brit.org
NPN	Native Plant Network - USDA Forest Service	https://npn.rngr.net/
SEINet (includes)	SW Biodivirsity	http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/
	Consortium of Midwest Herbaria
	Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria
	Intermountain Regional Herbarium Network
	Madrean Discovery Expeditions (MDE)
	Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium
	North American Network of Small Herbaria
	North Great Plains Herbaria
	Red de Herbarios del Noroeste de México (northern Mexico)
	SERNEC (Southeast USA)
	Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH)

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American Pokeweed

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 Woodland Gardening

American pokeweed, (Phytolacca americana), is a herbaceous perennial plant. It belongs to the pokeweed family Phytolaccaceae growing up to 8 feet (2 meters, 4 feet in my woodland garden), in height. It is native to eastern North America, the Midwest, the Gulf Coast, and the West coast states of the USA. Many people consider it a weed. I remove all the new seedlings I find, but 2-3 grow in a far corner of my yard, behind a lattice privacy barrier.  Birds eat the berries but they are toxic to mammals.

American pokeweed berries (Phytolacca americana)

American pokeweed flowers (Phytolacca americana)

Polk Salad Annie” is a 1968 song written and performed by Tony Joe White. Its lyrics describe the lifestyle of a poor rural Southern girl and her family. Traditionally, the term to describe the type of food highlighted in the song is polk or poke sallet, a cooked greens dish made from pokeweed. Its 1969 single release peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. In Canada, the song made No. 10 on the RPM Magazine Hot Singles chart. Elvis Presley's version also made the song popular.

American pokeweed are members of the Caryophyllales Order. Caryophyllales  is an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, beets, and many carnivorous plants. Many members are succulent, having fleshy stems or leaves.

References.                                                                        

1. Bethard, Wayne. Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West. Lanham, Md: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2013. 
2. Loughmiller, Campbell, Lynn Loughmiller, and Damon E. Waitt. Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. Print.
3. Phytolacca Americana (cultivated). , Wilson, Hugh, 2011. Internet resource

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