Partridgeberry - Mitchella repens Fall Color increasing berry production and creating

increasing berry production and creating more beautiful and beneficial female plants

medium to wet soils

feed your backyard birds with its desirable fruits

Photos: Samantha Nestory

Partridgeberry - Mitchella repens Fall Color increasing berry production and creatingThis short and sweet cutie patootie is a mat forming, ultra low growing shrub (yes, a shrub!) found in woodlands all over eastern North America. Partridgeberry has so many admirable qualities, from its lustrous, evergreen foliage with white veining to its pairs of fragrant, fuzzy flowers to its large red berries, prized by wildlife and persistent through winter. This is not an aggressive groundcover to outcompete your pesky non native pachysandra, but