Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius 
Ninebark is found throughout southern and eastern Missouri on gravel bars, rocky stream banks and bluffs along streams. It is a hardy plant and can tolerate a wide variety of planting sites.
Identifying Characteristics
- Height
- 8 ft
- Spread
- 8 ft
- Leaves
- alternate, simple, oval, 1" - 3" long; 3-lobed, double-toothed edges; green in summer, yellow to pink to bronze in fall
- Flowers
- small, white, 5-petalled, in dense flat-topped clusters
- Fruit
- small, papery capsules in clusters
- Bark
- peels into papery strips resembling "9s" exposing brown inner bark
- Associated species
- sumac, gray dogwood
- Ideal site conditions
- wide range, full sun
- Value to man
- landscaping, windbreaks
- Value to wildlife
- food, cover
- Growth Rate
- fast
- Range
