Northern Spicebush
Lindera benzoin
Yellow flowers from March into April. Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 105 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to part sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 11.5 ft to 15 ft tall, 10.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Mar to Apr
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots; wants 18 in of soil
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Spicebush Swallowtail
- Caterpillars
- 14 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 7 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Pink Azalea
Witherod Viburnum
Common Elderberry
Coral Honeysuckle
Sweet Joe-pye-weedFacts from the Quercus record for Lindera benzoin.