Plant library · Berries & Small Fruits
Sea Buckthorn
Hippophae rhamnoides
Extremely hardy, thorny, nitrogen-fixing shrub with nutritious orange berries; needs male and female plants.
- Deer resistant
Sunlight
Full Sun
Water
Low
USDA zones
3–8
Spacing
6 ft
Mature size
12 ft tall, 10 ft wide
Bloom
Early to mid-spring
Growing facts
- Botanical name
- Hippophae rhamnoides
- Type
- Shrub
- Category
- Berries & Small Fruits
- Lifecycle
- perennial
- USDA hardiness zones
- 3–8
- Sunlight
- Full Sun
- Water
- Low
- Plant spacing
- 6 ft
- Mature size
- 12 ft tall, 10 ft wide
- Bloom season
- Early to mid-spring
- Harvest season
- Late summer - early fall
- Pollinator friendly
- No
- Deer resistant
- Yes
- Native to North America
- No