The generic name of "Callicarpa" means "beautiful fruit" in Greek. I've only seen the American Beautyberry once, and that was in southern Florida as a wild plant in Fern Forest Park near Fort Lauderdale in late March 2018, and it still was holding its purple fruit in good condition down there. This species is native to the southeastern USA, parts of Mexico, and the Caribbean, as far north as southwest Maryland in moist soiled woods and thickets and rich bottomlands. I think it is cold hardy up to USDA Zone 6a, though it might become like a perennial that far north during colder winters. It may work like a perennial in Zone 5, as what happens to Butterflybush there. I've never seen any species of Beautyberry in the Chicago area of Zone 5a, though C. dichotoma is supposed to be hardy to Zone 5a. Some selections of three very similar species of east Asian Beautyberry shrubs are occasionally planted in southeast Pennsylvania from conventional nurseries. Native plant nurseries do grow the American species, including mail order ones. Redbud Native Plant Nursery offers this American Beautyberry in Media, PA that is Zone 6b. The leaves of the American species are larger and coarser than the Asian species, being 4 to 8 inches long, being very soft, hairy, and lighter green in color, plus they contain a natural mosquito repellent. The American species is a larger and looser growing shrub. Each node (bud or leaf axil) is surrounded by a big, dense mass of small lavender pink flowers in summer that become the purple fruit (drupes) that are about 1/3 inch in diameter, larger than the Asian species. The fruit is loved by many songbirds and quail. This shrub can easily be pruned down low in late fall to early spring to bloom & fruit on current year's growth. It is a great shrub for informal and naturalistic landscapes.