Creeping Snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis
Creeping snowberry is a low, trailing Western groundcover shrub with small pink flowers and white berries, rooting as it spreads over dry, shaded slopes. A useful native bank cover under oaks and pines.
- Family
- Caprifoliaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–6 ft
- Spacing
- 3–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, dry, wet
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- white, pink, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, mammals, songbirds
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~25 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- border, rain garden
- Native states
- CA
Related native plants
More Symphoricarpos species
- Coralberry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus)
- Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
- Western Snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis)
- Desert Snowberry (Symphoricarpos longiflorus)
- Mountain Snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus)