Plant Description - Early spring flowers, followed by autumn, red berries. They grow in wet to moist soil and full to part sun. Grow up to 6'-8'. This plant has many edible parts, and has medicinal qualities. Attracts butterflies, beneficial insects,birds. It is the host plant for the Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio troilus). It is a dioecious shrub, which means male and female flowers are on separate plants, and only the female plants will bear fruit. Tolerates juglone.
This plant is native to the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula, as well as to other regions of Ontario.
