When it blooms
In bloom: April to May
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How to grow it
- Light
- Part shade, Full shade
- Soil
- Moist
- Size
- 2 m–4 m
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Native to
- Ontario
What it feeds
Northern Spicebush is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Canada WarblerThreatenedBirdA bright yellow warbler in decline. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it feeds to its young.
Spicebush SwallowtailSpecialistButterflyIts caterpillars can grow up on almost nothing but spicebush. Plant the shrub and you'll likely meet them.
Photos: Photo by Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0
Plant it with
Other native plants the Spicebush Swallowtail also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Northern Spicebush where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.