[2][3] Common names for the plant include withe-rod, witherod viburnum, possumhaw, and wild raisin.

[2] Viburnum nudum is a shrub with opposite, simple leaves, on slender stems.

It is native to North America from southern Ontario and Quebec to Newfoundland, south to Florida, and west to Wisconsin.

[4] It is a larval host to spring azures and hummingbird clearwing moths.

[5] It is listed as endangered in Kentucky and Pennsylvania[6] and as special concern species and believed extirpated in Connecticut.