Red Baneberry

This perennial plant has a stalk 30 to 40 cm long. Its compound leaves are divided into dentate or serrate ovate leaflets. It may be distinguished from white baneberry by its rounder cluster of terminal flowers, which are small and white. It bears red berries on a slender, green stalk. All portions of this plant...

Botanical Name: Actaea rubra

Nom Français: Actée rouge

The Basics

Bloom colour: Red | White

Blooms: Summer - Zone 5

Pollinators: Bees | Other

Sun or Shade: Partial Sun | Shade

Plant Type: Perennial

Height: Up to 2 feet (70 cm)

Across Canada

It grows well in hardiness zones:

Planting

Woods, clearing

Water requirement:

Clay, loam

Care

The preference is light to moderate shade, moist to mesic conditions, and a somewhat acidic soil consisting of sandy loam, loam, or clay-loam with decaying organic matter. Cut back after flowering or fruiting. The seeds are slow to germinate, typically taking 2 years or more under natural conditions.

Pruning

Spread: up to 30 cm

Considerations

Native to Canada

Styling and Use

Sugar maple, white pine, white ash, red oak and basswood for the upper story. Plant this with other spring ephemerals such as spring beauty, toothwort, wild geranium, hepatica, bloodroot, zig-‐zag goldenrod. If the site is quite moist, add pagoda dogwood, starry Solomon's plume, and skunk cabbage.