Viburnum lantanoides (hobblebush)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Viburnum lantanoides, photographed by Ian Manning — fig. a Ian Manning, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205634052

Viburnum lantanoides, photographed by Nick Kleinschmidt — fig. b Nick Kleinschmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205444815

Viburnum lantanoides, photographed by Tom Scavo — fig. c Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203962600

Viburnum lantanoides, photographed by Clay Gibbons — fig. e Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201758665

Viburnum lantanoides, photographed by Steven Lamonde — fig. f Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205770080

Viburnum lantanoides, photographed by Tom Armstrong — fig. g Tom Armstrong, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201347102

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Flowering n = 2,135 observations

337

1655

127

Flowering observations of Viburnum lantanoides by month
Month	Observations
Jan	1
Feb	0
Mar	3
Apr	337
May	1655
Jun	127
Jul	3
Aug	7
Sep	2
Oct	0
Nov	0
Dec	0

Peak flowering in May, from 2,135 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 4 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 alnifolium Marshall
Viburnum alnifolium f. alnifolium
Viburnum grandifolium (Aiton) Sm.
Viburnum lantana var. grandifolium Aiton

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.