Symphoricarpos mollis (creeping snowberry)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by James M. Maley — fig. a James M. Maley, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-30 / obs. 185972362

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by Irene — fig. b Irene, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188884122

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by Dan Horowitz — fig. c Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195825426

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by Erin Springinotic — fig. d Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205041155

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by giantcicada — fig. e giantcicada, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197025243

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by elonicera — fig. f elonicera, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160535278

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by Hilary Rose Dawson — fig. g Hilary Rose Dawson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161028224

Symphoricarpos mollis, photographed by Rachel Whitt — fig. h Rachel Whitt, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174773803

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Flowering n = 318 observations

138

Flowering observations of Symphoricarpos mollis by month
Month	Observations
Jan	1
Feb	8
Mar	19
Apr	78
May	138
Jun	36
Jul	30
Aug	3
Sep	4
Oct	1
Nov	0
Dec	0

Peak flowering in May, from 318 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 3 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.

Symphoricarpos albus var. mollis (Nutt.) D.D.Keck
Symphoricarpos mollis subsp. mollis
Symphoricarpos mollis var. mollis

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.