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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Stringbarks
  7. Leatherwoods

genus

Leatherwoods

Dirca

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

Field notes

Children

  • Eastern Leatherwood native
  • Western Leatherwood native
  • Ozark Leatherwood present

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 leatherwoods All

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

  • Eastern Leatherwood Dirca palustris caterpillars 1 food 1 flowers 26
  • Western Leatherwood Dirca occidentalis

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