Viburnum rafinesqueanum, the downy arrowwood, is a deciduous medium-sized (typically about 2 meters tall) shrub native to the Eastern United States and Canada from Quebec and Manitoba south to Georgia and west to Oklahoma.

Downy arrow-wood produces ornamental but slightly malodorous flowers in Spring.

[1][2] Viburnum rafinesqueanum has opposite, simple leaves and dark blue fruit in berry-like drupes.

Foliage turns orange-red in late fall.

[3] Southern arrow-wood (V. dentatum) is similar, except that it blooms later and has broader, more coarsely toothed leaves and longer petioles.