| Scientific Name: | Shepherdia canadensis |
| Common Name: | buffaloberry, soapberry |
| Family Name: | Elaeagnaceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Native planting, Summer interest, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Yellow, Green-yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Achene, Drupe, Edible, (Accessory tissue), Red, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems brownish scaled like russet potato; leaves opposite, mostly ovate, 3-6cm long x 2-3cm wide, margins entire, covered in silver hairs and rust-colored scales on lower surface; berries bright red, round-oval, 6-8mm long, spotted, soapy feel when crushed, bitter. Winter ID: twigs and buds covered in brown and silver "scales"; buds oblong, 6-9 mm long, stalked and naked with two ovate valvate scales are ovate to oval and flat, flower buds globose. | |