Symphoricarpos albus(L.) S.F.Blake

Common Snowberry

WFO wfo-0000439047 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. a Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 204491427
Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204765554
Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Petr Harant
fig. c Petr Harant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202900376
Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. d Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201562219
Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. e Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201708570
Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. f Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197859472
Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Wendy St. John
fig. g Wendy St. John, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199919806
Symphoricarpos albus, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201494069

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Flowering n = 1,947 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,947 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 27 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lonicera alba (L.) Druce
  • Lonicera racemosa Steud.
  • Symphoria albus Raf.
  • Symphoria elongata (C.Presl ex DC.) Torr. & A.Gray
  • Symphoria glauca hort. ex Lavallée
  • Symphoria heterophylla Raf.
  • Symphoria leucocarpa hort. ex DC.
  • Symphoria macrocarpa hort. ex Lavallée
  • Symphoria racemosa (Michx.) Pursh
  • Symphoricarpos albus f. laevigatus G.N.Jones
  • Symphoricarpos albus subsp. laevigatus (Fernald) Hultén
  • Symphoricarpos albus var. albus
  • Symphoricarpos albus var. ovatus Rehder
  • Symphoricarpos albus var. pauciflorus S.F.Blake
  • Symphoricarpos elongatus Presl ex DC.
  • Symphoricarpos heterophyllus Presl ex DC.
  • Symphoricarpos leucocarpa M'Mahon
  • Symphoricarpos leucocarpus hort. ex K.Koch
  • Symphoricarpos pauciflorus Britton
  • Symphoricarpos puniceus Steud.
  • Symphoricarpos racemosus Michx.
  • Symphoricarpos racemosus var. laevigatus Fernald
  • Symphoricarpos racemosus var. pauciflorus Robbins
  • Symphoricarpos rivularis Suksd.

and 3 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.