It's tolerant of medium to wet sites, full sun to shade. 

• An evergreen shrub with many uses, from foundation, mass planting, hedge, to erosion and watershed control
• Bees love the white blooms in spring (may-june) and use for honey
• Compacta is a female form so with a male you will see jet black drupes in late summer-fall that the birds will eat.
• Inkberry can colonize by sprouting shoots off the stolinefera roots