Plant Name: Northern Bayberry
myrica pensylvanica
Height: 5 ft
Spread: 5 ft
Sunlight: full sun to part shade
Zone: 3
Description: Tolerates a wide range of soils and growing conditions, including poor soils, wet soils, drought, high winds and salt spray (seashore or road salt conditions). Groupings of plants need a least one male plant to facilitate pollination of the female plants and subsequent fruit set. Shrubs tend to sucker, and may form sizable colonies in optimum growing conditions.