Dwarf Black Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa ‘UCONNAM165’ Low Scape Mound®
This compact black chokeberry is an excellent landscape shrub. Maintaining a neat and tidy mounded form, ‘Low Scape Mound’ is the perfect choice for small spaces or low-maintenance hedges. Like other chokeberry varieties, it is covered with delicate whitish flowers in late spring that give way to attractive bluish-purple colored berries later in the season. In fall, the leaves turn a blazing red-orange. Chokeberries are an important source of food for birds. If the birds don’t devour them first, try harvesting the berries for jams or jellies.
Conditions: Full sun to partial shade; average to moist soil
Size: 2′ tall and 2′ spread
Zone: 3 – 9
Wildlife Value: Flowers attractive to small bees and pollinating beetles; fruits edible by humans and birds
