California Coffeeberry
Frangula californica
Adaptable evergreen with glossy leaves and berries that ripen green to red to black, feeding birds. Takes sun or shade and shears into a handsome hedge.
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–12 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, mammals, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~11 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- AZ, CA, NM, NV, OR