Characteristics
Lindera benzoin (L.) Blume
spicebush
Floodplain forests, swamps, shrub swamps, wet woods, mesic forests, seeps in forests, and fens. Occurs in mesic to wet soils often but not always in at least partial shade. In some forest understories it can be the dominant species in the shrub layer.
Shrub
Perennial
Vascular
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Native
FAC (NWPL EMP)
FACW (NWPL NCNE)
S5 (State Rank)
Mitchell and Beal 1979, Wofford 1997
Citation
Lindera benzoin (L.) Blume
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