{"id":3820,"date":"2016-09-27T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2016-09-25T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:04:00","slug":"mapleleaf-viburnum-for-woodland-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/09\/27\/mapleleaf-viburnum-for-woodland-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapleleaf Viburnum For Woodland Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Native Mapleleaf Viburnum (V. acerifolium)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cyme flowers of Mapleleaf viburnum<\/p><\/div>\n

The genus Viburnum<\/em> is a\u00a0rich\u00a0source of over 150 species of great flowering shrubs worldwide. Many viburnums are native to North America including mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium<\/em>). This totally underutilized deciduous viburnum is a great\u00a0choice to plant in shrub borders, foundation, or hedging, as well as\u00a0to\u00a0naturalize in an open woodland area\u00a0(zone 3-8).<\/p>\n

Shrub grows 4 – 6 feet tall and 3 – 4 feet wide. In late winter before spring bud break, swelling flower buds turn\u00a0distinctively pale purple. Creamy white 1 to 3 inch wide flowers (cymes) appear in early to mid-May. Flowers give way to pea-sized fruits that ripen to bluish-black in late summer, and persist through most of winter. Shrub may form basal suckers and form colonies over many years.<\/p>\n

Mapleleaf viburnum is a relatively small, rounded, suckering, deciduous, woodland shrub. Leaves are generally 3-lobed, 2-5 inches long, and very maple-like; juvenile foliage on seedling plants may not always develop side lobes. Leaves \u00a0are opposite, ovate to rounded, coarsely toothed. Fall color is variable from one year to the next. When best, it is hard to beat, leaves turning purple to magenta in the fall.<\/p>\n

Mapleleaf viburnum is easy to grow in average, medium moist, well-drained soil and in full sun to part shade. This viburnum\u00a0is an exceptional grower in dry, shady woodland locales.\u00a0Prune as needed immediately after spring flowering. Lightly feed with a granular fertilizer such as 10-10-10 or equivalent. It appears to be pH insensitive. Mulch to\u00a0maintain a weed-free planting.\u00a0Mapleleaf viburnum has no serious insect or disease problems and damage from deer feeding is minimal.<\/p>\n

Mapleleaf viburnum is sold primarily by\u00a0nurseries that specialize in\u00a0selling native plants on-line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The genus Viburnum is a\u00a0rich\u00a0source of over 150 species of great flowering shrubs worldwide. Many viburnums are native to North America including mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium). This totally underutilized deciduous viburnum is a great\u00a0choice to plant in shrub borders, foundation, or hedging, as well as\u00a0to\u00a0naturalize in an open woodland area\u00a0(zone 3-8). Shrub grows 4 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,398,747,1319,299,440,778,645,674,806,665,1332,551,627,843,601,933,777,1210,630,705,646,7,1,935,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}