10. Common Snowberry

We have two species of Snowberry here at Leaning Oaks. The taller of the two is this one, Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), which ironically, is the less common of the two.  Here they don't always fruit, but when they do the white berries are a welcome sight on dreary winter days.  In the spring  they have small bell-shaped flowers which are often visited by bumble bees and both Rufous and Anna's Hummingbirds.  Snowberries are the food plant for a number of native moth caterpillars  including the dapper and unusual Snowberry Bee Hawk Moth (Hemerus diffinis) a daytime flying, bee mimic we most often see feeding on our Dwarf Liliac. 

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