Snowberry - Symphoricarpos albus
A shrub reaching 1 to 3 metres, branches quite erect and arching, slender. Leaves round-oval. Flowers pink, bell shaped, 5 to 6 mm long in small spike like racemes. Fruit is a white pulpy berry, 10 to 15 mm
Hedgerows and embankments, sometimes forming dense thickets by growth of suckers.
June to September.
Deciduous.
Locally naturalised throughout Britain.
Frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 264 of the 617 tetrads.
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
17 July 2018
David Gould
G.U. Canal, Glen Parva, Leicester
24 September 2017
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
17 July 2018
Annie Smith
Jubilee Park Enderby
06 September 2017
Steve Mathers
Melton Country Park
13 November 2016
Alan Semper
Harby roadside
04 September 2013
Dave Gamble
Baines Lane Leicester Forest East
12 January 2021
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Species profile
- Common names
- Snowberry
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Dipsacales
- Family:
- Caprifoliaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 149
- First record:
- 09/07/2007 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 16/11/2025 (HUGHES, NEIL)
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David Gould
Croft Hill, Leics
27 June 2016
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley
24 June 2011
stepgray4
Snicket between Brook Street and East Road, Wymeswold
03 August 2021
Alan Semper
Harby Langar Lave verge
01 August 2012 Cooks Lane Sapcote SP 4890 9316 (taken 9.7.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
09 July 2007
fruits (berries) and flowers
David Nicholls
St. Mary's Allotments, Leicester
06 October 2012
Alan Semper
Melton Country Park
01 November 2011
David Nicholls
Burroughs Lane, Ratby
21 August 2011
Alan Semper
Harby roadside
04 September 2013 Cooks Lane Sapcote SP 4890 9316 (taken 9.7.2007),.JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
09 July 2007
flower
Alan Semper
Harby roadside
04 September 2013
Graham Calow
Frolesworth
11 May 2015
 Cooks Lane Sapcote SP 4890 9316 (taken 9.7.2007).JPG)
 Cooks Lane Sapcote SP 4890 9316 (taken 9.7.2007),.JPG)
Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella
The larva of the moth Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella mines the leaves of various Honeysuckle species and Snowberry causing a large tentiform mine.
Phyllonorycter trifasciella
The larva of the moth Phyllonorycter trifasciella mines the leaves of various Honeysuckle species and Snowberry producing a small tentiform mine that contracts diagonally causing the leaf to roll up.
Aulagromyza hendeliana
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Aulagromyza hendeliana mines the leaves of Honeysuckles and Snowberry. The mine is upper surface, long and linear, with frass in a double row of black grains. The puparium should be examined in order to confirm this species.
Aulagromyza luteoscutellata
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Aulagromyza luteoscutellata mine the leaves of Honeysuckle, Snowberry and Himalayan Honeysuckle. The mine is linear, with frass in a broad green band with scattered dark granules.
Chromatomyia lonicerae
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Chromatomyia lonicerae mines the leaves of Honeysuckle and Snowberry. The leafmine starts with an irregular star-like blotch with a later linear corridor. Frass is usually visible in pearl-strings. Pupation is internal with the pupa firmly adhered within the mine by frass.
Chromatomyia periclymeni
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Chromatomyia periclymeni mines the leaves of various members of the Honeysuckle family, including Honeysuckle, Himalayan Honeysuckle and Snowberry. It is an upper surface mine and usually blotchy and not associated with the midrib. The young mine is arranged in a radiating pattern like a star and is initially purple in colour but turning brown as it ages.