Description

Lindera benzoin, Northern Spicebush 12-18″ Wholesale Native Bare Root Shrubs

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Attractive Flowers:
Average to moist soil:
Beneficial Insects:
Butterflies:
Edible Fruit:
Erosion Control:
FACW – Usually occur in wetlands, but may occur in non-wetlands:
Flood Tolerant:
Fragrant:
Herbal / Medicinal Uses:
High Wildlife Value:
Loamy Soil – mostly silt, sand, some clay:
Medicinal Uses:
Moist Soil:
Native to Coastal Regions:
Native To Mountain Regions:
Native to Piedmont Regions:
Occasionally wet soil (non-tidal):
Part-Full Shade (less than 4 hours):
Part Sun-Part Shade :
Perennial:
Sandy soil, coarse texture:
Shrub:
Small Mammals:
Songbirds:
Threatened / Endangered:
Waterfowl:

 

Botanic Name: Lindera benzoin
Common Name: Northern spicebush
Sun Exposure:

• Part Sun
• Part Shade
• Full Shade

Soil moisture:

• Average
• Moist
• Wet

Soil Type:

• Clay
• Loamy
• Sandy

Mature height / spread: 6.5-14′
Flower: Yellow March-May
Fall Color: Gold
Fruit: Red Sept-Oct
Soil Ph: 4.5-6.5
Water depth:
Habitat: Spicebush is primarily an understory species, sometimes forming thickets, of rich, mesic sites on acidic to basic soils. Common habitats are low woods, swamp margins, and streamsides.
Notes:
Over 20 species of birds, as well as deer, rabbits, raccoons, and opossums have been recorded as browsing the leaves or eating the fruits. The fruits are a special favorite of wood thrushes. The spicebush swallowtail, Papilio Troilus (L.), lays its eggs on spicebush. There apparently are no commercial uses of spicebush, but the essential oils of leaves, twigs, and fruits have lent themselves for minor use for tea, and dried fruits have been used in fragrant sachets. Native Americans used dried fruits as a spice and the leaves for tea. Extracts have been used for drugs, including anti-arthritic, diaphoretic, emetic and herbal steam. The benzoin of drug trade is produced by species of Styrax (Styraceae). Because of its habitat in rich woods, early land surveyors and settlers used spicebush as an indicator species for good agricultural land.
Threatened /Endangered: Maine

Lindera benzoin, Northern Spicebush 12-18″ Wholesale Native Bare Root Shrubs

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Native bare root shrubs and trees are dug and shipped while dormant, late November to Mid April.

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