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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
  6. Clethra Family
  7. Sweet Pepperbush

genus

Sweet Pepperbush

Clethra

Traits
Includes
3 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sweet Pepperbush native
  • Mountain Sweet Pepperbush native
  • Lily of the Valley Tree
  • Mexican Pepperbush present
  • Coastal Pepperbush native
  • Japanese Clethra
  • Clethra pringlei
  • Jicarillo
  • Clethra vicentina
  • Farges Clethra

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

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native sweet pepperbush All

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

  • Sweet Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia caterpillars 6 food 3 flowers 179
  • Coastal Pepperbush Clethra tomentosa caterpillars 2 flowers 6
  • Mountain Sweet Pepperbush Clethra acuminata caterpillars 2 flowers 5

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