Garden Goods Direct Shrubs Diablo Ninebark

Physocarpus Diablo Ninebark Shrubs are a purple-leaved ninebark cultivar. It is an upright, deciduous North American Native shrub.

The Diablo is an upright, spreading, somewhat coarse, deciduous shrub which is closely related to genus Spiraea. It typically grows 4-8′ tall. Small pinkish-white, five-petaled flowers in dense, flat, rounded, 1-2″ diameter. Flowers appear in late spring and give way to drooping clusters of reddish fruit.

The shrub’s purple foliage tends to green up in hot summer climates as the summer progresses. The species is native to Missouri. Ninebark is named for its exfoliating bark which peels in strips to reveal several layers of reddish to light brown inner bark.