# Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)

> Snowberry, Symphoricarpos albus: a shrub of 2 to 6 feet for zones 3 to 7, how fast it grows, where it grows wild, and the natives we grow for the same ground.

Blue Whale Trees, a native tree nursery in the United States. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/species/snowberry/

![Arching snowberry stem with small rounded leaves and a cluster of round, pure white berries](https://bluewhaletrees.com/img/species/snowberry-1000.jpg?v=a9d74916 "Snowberry in fruit at Silbersee III in Haltern am See, Germany, on October 17, 2020. Its fruit ripens from August to October and stays on the plant until the next spring.")
*Photo: Dietmar Rabich, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) ([source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHaltern_am_See%2C_Silbersee_III_--_2020_--_3241.jpg))*

Shrub, 2 to 6 feet, zones 3 to 7; full sun, part shade or shade; dry, average or wet ground.

We do not grow snowberry, and it is not in our shop. This page gathers what our tools say about it and the natives we grow for the same ground.

## At a glance

| Fact | Snowberry |
| --- | --- |
| Other names | Common snowberry, white snowberry, upright snowberry, white coralberry |
| Form | Shrub |
| Height, feet | 2 to 6 |
| Spread, feet | Up to 6 |
| Zones | 3 to 7 |
| Sun | Full sun, part shade or shade |
| Soil moisture | Dry, average or wet ground |
| Growth | Fast |
| Leaves | Deciduous |
| Traits | Wildlife value, hedge or screen, salt tolerant, winter interest, erosion control |
| Flowers | May to September |
| Fruit | Drupes, August to March |
| Pollination | Not known whether one bears alone |
| Planting season | Spring |
| Black walnut | Not named on the Morton Arboretum's lists |
| Toxicity | The berries are poisonous to people. |
| Ground | Rocky ground, dry uplands and stream banks |
| Native in | 29 states and the District of Columbia |

Snowberry is native in 29 states and the District of Columbia: [Alaska](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=AK), [California](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=CA), [Colorado](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=CO), [Connecticut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=CT), [Idaho](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=ID), [Illinois](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=IL), [Iowa](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=IA), [Kentucky](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=KY), [Maryland](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=MD), [Massachusetts](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=MA), [Michigan](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=MI), [Minnesota](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=MN), [Montana](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=MT), [Nebraska](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=NE), [New Hampshire](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=NH), [New Jersey](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=NJ), [New Mexico](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=NM), [New York](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=NY), [North Carolina](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=NC), [North Dakota](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=ND), [Ohio](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=OH), [Oregon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=OR), [South Dakota](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=SD), [Tennessee](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=TN), [Virginia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=VA), [Washington](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=WA), [West Virginia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=WV), [Wisconsin](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=WI), [Wyoming](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=WY) and [the District of Columbia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=DC). The states are the USDA PLANTS Database's records, with the native range read from Silvics of North America and NatureServe Explorer. The USDA PLANTS Database also records it growing wild beyond that range in [Delaware](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=DE), [Indiana](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=IN), [Maine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=ME), [Missouri](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=MO), [Pennsylvania](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=PA), [Rhode Island](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=RI), [Utah](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=UT) and [Vermont](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/native/index.html.md?state=VT), where it is naturalized, not native.

## What our tools say

- [How fast it grows and how big it gets, by site](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/growth/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the growth estimator
- [Whether it suits your zone, sun and soil](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/site-check/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the planting-site check
- [How far from a house, wires and a septic field](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/distance/index.html.md?species=snowberry&near=house,septic,pavement,wires,boundary,tree): the planting-distance tool
- [What grows with it in the wild and in a yard](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/companions/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the companion species tool
- [When to plant it where you live](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/planting-window/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the planting-window tool
- [When it flowers and fruits, month by month](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/calendar/index.html.md?plants=snowberry): the bloom and fruit calendar
- [How to sow its seed, with dates for your place](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/sowing/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the seed sowing planner
- [Whether one you have can be moved, and what the move takes](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/transplant/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the transplant planner
- [How old one is, from its height](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-age/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the tree age estimator
- [How a big one scores by the champion-tree formula](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/big-tree/index.html.md?species=snowberry): the big-tree measurer

## For the same ground, we grow

- [Gray Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/gray-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus racemosa*): shrub, 4 to 10 feet, zones 4 to 8. Shares rocky ground, dry uplands and stream banks in the wild.
- [Roughleaf Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/roughleaf-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus drummondii*): shrub, 6 to 15 feet, zones 5 to 8. Shares rocky ground, dry uplands and stream banks in the wild.
- [Common Prickly Ash (Toothache Tree)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/common-prickly-ash/index.html.md) (*Zanthoxylum americanum*): shrub, 10 to 20 feet, zones 3 to 8. Shares rocky ground, dry uplands and stream banks in the wild.
- [Saskatoon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/saskatoon/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier alnifolia*): shrub, 3 to 26 feet, zones 2 to 9. Shares rocky ground, dry uplands and stream banks in the wild.
- [Clove Currant](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/clove-currant/index.html.md) (*Ribes aureum var. villosum*): shrub, 3 to 10 feet, zones 2 to 7. Shares rocky ground, dry uplands and stream banks in the wild.
- [Streambank Mock Orange](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/streambank-mock-orange/index.html.md) (*Philadelphus hirsutus*): shrub, 3 to 10 feet, zones 4 to 10. Shares rocky ground, dry uplands and stream banks in the wild.
- [Every companion of snowberry in the companion species tool](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/companions/index.html.md?species=snowberry)

## Read from

Its figures come from the USDA PLANTS Database, NC State Extension, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Morton Arboretum, the Wildflower Center, the Forest Service's Fire Effects Information System, the Woody Plant Seed Manual and the University of Connecticut's plant database.