''Viburnum rafinesqueanum'', the downy arrowwood, is a deciduous medium-sized (typically about 2 meters tall)

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

native to the Eastern United States and Canada from Quebec and Manitoba south to Georgia and west to Oklahoma. Downy arrow-wood produces ornamental but slightly malodorous flowers in Spring. ''Viburnum rafinesqueanum'' has opposite, simple leaves and dark blue fruit in berry-like

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

s. Foliage turns orange-red in late fall. Southern arrow-wood ('' V. dentatum'') is similar, except that it blooms later and has broader, more coarsely toothed leaves and longer petioles. Other similar species are smooth arrowwood ('' V. recognitum'') and Carolina arrowwood ('' V. carolinianum'').

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{{Taxonbar, from1=Q12357501 rafinesqueanum Flora of Manitoba Flora of Eastern Canada Flora of the Northeastern United States Flora of the Southeastern United States Flora of the North-Central United States Flora without expected TNC conservation status