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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Saxifrages, Stonecrops, and Allies
  6. Witch-hazel Family
  7. Witch-alders

genus

Witch-alders

Fothergilla

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Coastal Witch-Alder native
  • Mountain Witch-alder native
  • Fothergilla ×intermedia
  • Miller's Witchalder
  • Kearney's Witch-alder
  • Fothergilla latifolia

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Perennial Shrub

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native witch-alders All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Mountain Witch-alder Fothergilla major caterpillars 1 flowers 6
  • Coastal Witch-Alder Fothergilla gardenii flowers 6

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