Nannyberry, Nannyberry Viburnum, Sheepberry            vi-BER-num len-TA-go

• Deciduous shrub or small tree, 15-18(30) ft [4.5-5.5(9) m] tall, slender, arching branches.  Leaves opposite, simple, ovate to obovate, to 10 × 5 cm, apex pointed (acuminate), base wedge-shaped or rounded, finely toothed, glabrous and glossy dark green above (fall color may range from green to purple red); petiole to 2.5 cm, often slightly winged.  Flowers have white petals and yellow stamens, giving a creamy appearance, in flat-topped clusters, 7.5-10 cm wide.  Fruit oval, to 16 mm long, ripen to blue-black.
• Sun and shade.  Tolerant of moist and dry soils.  Used in naturalizing.  Fruit attracts birds.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 3       Native range from Hudson Bay to Manitoba and south to Georgia and Mississippi.