Viburnum dentatumL.

southern arrowwood

WFO wfo-0001290753 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Matt Pelikan
fig. a Matt Pelikan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 203936755
Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. b Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203079483
Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. c Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201418001
Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. d Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200879170
Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. e Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199516379
Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Tom Field
fig. f Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198132651
Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Steve Young
fig. g Steve Young, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169577694
Viburnum dentatum, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. h Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157126945

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Flowering n = 246 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 246 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 25 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.

  • Viburnum carolinianum Ashe
  • Viburnum carolinianum var. cismontanum McAtee
  • Viburnum deamii (Rehder) Bush
  • Viburnum deamii var. canbyi (Rehder) Bush
  • Viburnum deamii var. indianense (Rehder) Bush
  • Viburnum dentatum var. dentatum
  • Viburnum dentatum var. glabellum Michx.
  • Viburnum dentatum var. indianense (Rehder) Gleason
  • Viburnum dentatum var. longifolium Dippel
  • Viburnum dentatum var. pubescens Aiton
  • Viburnum dentatum var. scabrellum Torr. & A.Gray
  • Viburnum dentatum var. semitomentosum Michx.
  • Viburnum indianense (Rehder) McAtee
  • Viburnum pubescens (Aiton) Pursh
  • Viburnum pubescens var. canbyi S.F.Blake
  • Viburnum pubescens var. deamii Rehder
  • Viburnum pubescens var. indianense Rehder
  • Viburnum pubescens var. longifolium (Dippel) S.F.Blake
  • Viburnum pubescens var. petiolum T.J.Fitzp.
  • Viburnum scabrellum var. dilutum McAtee
  • Viburnum semitomentosum (Michx.) Rehder
  • Viburnum tomentosum Raf.
  • Viburnum venosum Britton
  • Viburnum venosum var. canbyi Rehder

and 1 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.