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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Callicarpoideae
  8. Beautyberries

genus

Beautyberries

Callicarpa

Traits
Includes
1 native 2 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • American Beautyberry native
  • Purple Beautyberry introduced
  • Formosan Beautyberry present
  • Japanese Beautyberry introduced
  • Kochi's Beauty Berry
  • Velvet Leaf
  • Callicarpa acuminata present
  • Luanta Beautyberry
  • Red Beautyberry
  • Narrowleaf Beautyberry
  • Callicarpa tikusikensis
  • Bodinier's Beautyberry
  • Japanese Beautyberry
  • Great Wooly Malayan Lilac
  • Callicarpa giraldii
  • Callicarpa cathayana
  • Urn-fruit Beauty-berry
  • Callicarpa kwangtungensis
  • Asian Beautyberry
  • Asian Beautyberry
  • Capa Rosa

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native beautyberries All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana caterpillars 1 food 45 flowers 20

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