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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Laurels, Spicebushes, and Allies
  6. Laurels
  7. Spicebushes

genus

Spicebushes

Lindera

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

Field notes

Children

  • Northern Spicebush native
  • Lindera megaphylla
  • Blunt-lobe Spicebush
  • Lindera communis present
  • Oriental Spicebush present
  • Taiwan Spicebush
  • Lindera aggregata
  • Red-fruit Spicebush
  • Kuromoji
  • Southern Spicebush native
  • Lindera angustifolia introduced
  • Bog Spicebush native
  • Lindera triloba
  • Lindera chunii
  • Lindera fragrans
  • Lindera floribunda

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 spicebushes All

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

  • Northern Spicebush Lindera benzoin caterpillars 11 hosts 1 food 34 flowers 30
  • Southern Spicebush Lindera melissifolia caterpillars 2 flowers 1
  • Bog Spicebush Lindera subcoriacea

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