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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Staff-vines and Allies
  6. Bittersweet Family
  7. Spindletrees

genus

Spindletrees

Euonymus

Traits
Includes
4 native 5 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Winged Euonymus introduced
  • Spindle introduced
  • Fortune's Spindle introduced
  • Strawberry Bush native
  • Japanese Spindle Tree introduced
  • Wahoo native
  • Running Strawberry-bush native
  • Large-leaved Spindle present
  • Western Burning Bush native
  • Hamilton's Spindle introduced
  • Euonymus spraguei
  • Fleshy-flowered Spindle Tree present
  • Hamilton's Spindletree introduced
  • Korean Spindle Tree
  • Dwarf Strawberry Bush present
  • Euonymus semenovii
  • Euonymus macropterus
  • Euonymus sachalinensis
  • Winterberry Euonymus
  • Corktree
  • Euonymus grandiflorus
  • Euonymus lucidus
  • Euonymus sanguineus

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Tree Vine Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native spindletrees All

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

  • Wahoo Euonymus atropurpureus caterpillars 6 hosts 2 food 2 flowers 28
  • Strawberry Bush Euonymus americanus caterpillars 4 food 7 flowers 5
  • Running Strawberry-bush Euonymus obovatus caterpillars 4 food 2 flowers 3
  • Western Burning Bush Euonymus occidentalis caterpillars 2 food 4 flowers 1

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