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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Saxifrages, Stonecrops, and Allies
  6. Sweetgum Family
  7. Sweetgums

genus

Sweetgums

Liquidambar

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

Field notes

Children

  • American Sweetgum native
  • Chinese Sweetgum introduced
  • Oriental Sweetgum present
  • Chang’s Sweet Gum

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 Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native sweetgums All

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

  • American Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua caterpillars 29 hosts 3 food 25 flowers 18 shelter 1

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