New Mexico Olive

Deciduous shrub or small tree producing clusters of small yellow flowers on bare stems in early spring before leaf-out, providing an early nectar and pollen source for honeybees and other pollinators. Plants are dioecious or polygamo-dioecious; female plants bear small dark blue-black fruits attractive to birds. Low-maintenance thicket-forming species tolerant of a range of well-drained soils and drought once established.