Give plenty of room for thicket-forming habit. Well suited as spreading background plant. Very adaptable – tolerating dry or moist soil, sun or shade.
Comments
Blooms January-June. Irregular shaped shrub. Flowers not showy, and are yellow, without petals, in small clusters on bare twigs in early spring. Male and female flowers are on separate bushes. Fruit occurs on the female bush, are fleshy and dark blue. Flowers provide early Spring nectar. Berries eaten by birds and small mammals. Larval Host: Hairstreaks.
References
1) Griffith, Bryce, Omernick & Rodgers (2007). Ecoregions of Texas. 2) https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=FOPU2. 3) https://portal.torcherbaria.org/portal/taxa/index.php?taxon=Forestiera+pubescens&formsubmit=Search+Terms. 4) http://bonap.net/TDC/Image/Map?taxonType=Species&taxonId=15487&locationType=County&mapType=Normal, 5) https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=32957#null, 6) Native and Adapted Landscape Plants, City of Austin and Texas A&M, 2014.