| Scientific Name: | Actaea pachypoda |
| Common Name: | white baneberry, doll's eyes |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Fragrance, Perennial border, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Compound, Opposite, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Tripinnate, Obovate, Ovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), White, Aug-Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, trice-compound, with toothed and lobed pinnae, ovate-obovate, 4-11cm long x 1-6cm wide; flowers white and small, in terminal racemes above the foliage; berries white, each with a dark spot formed by the flower stigma, nicely contrasting with their red-pink stalks. | |