Viburnum plicatum

Scientific Name: Viburnum plicatum
Common Name: Japanese snowball

Showy white flowers on nearly horizontal branches help identify the large Japanese snowball shrub. (This form is doublefile viburnum.) The paired leaves are pleated.
Photographer: Peganum, CC BY-SA

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This non-native viburnum is highly invasive in the U.S. There are two forms of Viburnum plicatum: one with rounded snowball-like clusters of flowers, and one called "doublefile viburnum" (forma tomentosum) with a ring of showy flowers around a cluster of small flowers. Click on the Flickr icon for examples of each.