Physocarpus opulifolius
Common Ninebark
Rosaceae

Located behind W.B. Young building underneath LA classroom windows.

  • leaves alternate, ovate, with 3-5 often poorly defined lobes
  • leaves medium green, with dentate margins
  • buds brown, imbricate, appressed, smooth
  • stems smooth, red-brown
  • bark on older stems peels into long strips with age, thus the name "ninebark"
  • flowers white/pink, small, in corymbs, in mid-spring
  • fruit a aggregate of 3-5 inflated follicles, smooth, often reddish, with pointed tips
  • habit an upright shrub with many stems from the base
  • habit is vase-like and leggy/unkempt with age


View Physocarpus opulifolius page in the UConn Plant Database

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