Red Chokeberry's glossy red berries persist into winter, and its fall foliage turns a striking scarlet to shades of orange. 
 
     In early summer, daisy-like blooms with red stamens pop out, pulling in native bees, beetles and butterflies.  Birds seek out the berries in winter when food is scarce.
 
     Red Chokeberry will grow into a lovely vase shape, and it can be pruned as a single-trunk small tree.  Left alone it will colonize.
 
     Often Red Chokeberry is used as a hedge, and it provides soil stabilization near ponds or other wet areas.  Red Chokeberry also makes a great native substitute for the invasive Euonymus alata (burning bush).
 
     1st photo: Andrey Zharkikh