Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
- Flowering period
- June–September
- Nectar
- gut
- Pollen
- gering
The Snowberry flowers from June to September with small, inconspicuous pink flowers that keep replenishing nectar. The nectar value is good, the pollen value low. It is completely undemanding, grows in urban greenery, along railway embankments and in hedges, and is also heavily worked by hoverflies. Its strength is the long flowering period that provides in the summer gap between lime and autumn bloomers.
Sources (4)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Gewöhnliche Schneebeere
- Bienenweidepflanzen für den Hausgarten, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau (LWG) Veitshöchheim
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments
- Tew, Baldock, Morten, Bird, Vaughan, Memmott (2023): A dataset of nectar sugar production for flowering plants found in urban greenspaces