Index / Search / Viburnum plicatum
§1 Plant
Viburnum plicatum Thunb.
vernacular Japanese snowball — species · Caprifoliaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caprifoliaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Viburnum
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 25 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 25 counties across 7 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VIPL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2888622 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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