Lindera Benzoin (northern spicebush)

Price range: $20.99 through $36.99

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Northern Spicebush is a wonderfully fragrant understory shrub. It has berries for the birds in fall, as long as you plant a male with the females, and hosts the larvae of swallowtail butterflies. It’s early flowers attract and support many pollinators when there is not much else. It can grow in many conditions, although will be more uniform in the sun with adequate moisture, part shade it does best. Fall foliage color along with it’s red berries it is a wonderful shrub that can get 6-12′ and is deer resistant. Works great in a mixed hedge.

Attributes and Characteristics

Lindera Benzoin (northern spicebush)

6′-12′ Height, 6′-12′ Width
Full Sun to Full Shade
Wet to Average Soil
Spring Bloom
Fruit Summer/Fall
Fragrant
Rain Garden
Screening
Low Maintenance
Dioecious (fruits only on female plants
need 1 male plant with females for fruit)

Pick up Information

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