Bracted Viburnum, Limerock Arrowwood Viburnum              vi-BER-num brak-te-A-tum

• Broadleaf deciduous shrub, to 10 ft (3 m) high, upright, spreading.  Leaves simple, opposite, orbicular-ovate, 5-12 cm long, base cordate or subcordate, margin has coarse dentate teeth, dark green above, pubescent on the veins below, petiole 1.5-2 cm long.  Fall color yellow to bronze.  Flowers white, malodorus, in broad flat-topped clusters (cymes), 4-8 cm across, with conspicuous bractlets.   Fruit about 1 cm long, blue-black.
• Sun to partial shade.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 5        Native to southeastern US.
• Note: Michael Dirr (2009, p.1200) "..Brachted Viburnum is a difficult species to properly identify, even for the advanced gardener.  Consider it a souped-up version ( ..an octaploid) of V. dentatum with glossier, thick texured leaves.  Otherwise I see little difference between the species..."
• bracteatum: a reference to the distinctive bracts on the stems of the flower clusters.