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

genus

Sweetspires

Itea

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

Field notes

Children

  • Virginia Sweetspire native
  • Formosan Sweetspire present
  • Holly-leaved Sweetspire
  • Itea yunnanensis

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 sweetspires All

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

  • Virginia Sweetspire Itea virginica food 1 flowers 76

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