Sweetshrub
Calycanthus floridus
Red flowers from April into May. It grows wild in 43 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 9 ft to 12 ft tall, 9 ft wide
- Flowers
- Red, Apr to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 3 kinds of caterpillars
Grows well with
Flame Azalea
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Inkberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Pink Azalea
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Witherod Viburnum
Common Elderberry
Facts from the Quercus record for Calycanthus floridus.