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BAYBERRY FAMILY
(MYRICACEAE)
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Bird food:
- Bayberry fruit: bluebirds, brown thrashers, Carolina chickadees, catbirds, dowitchers, mockingbirds, mottled ducks, red-cockaded woodpeckers, robins, ruby-crowned kinglets, titmice, tree swallows, towhees, yellow-rumped warblers, others
- Wax myrtle berries: bluebirds, bobwhites, brown thrashers, catbirds, Carolina chickadees, red-bellied woodpeckers, ruby-crowned kinglets, white-eyed vireos, yellow-rumped warblers, tree swallows, others
Butterfly larval food: Red-banded Hairstreak
Wildlife food
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name |
area | flower
& fruit |
season |
other |
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Wax myrtle
Myrica cerifera | NCS | inconspicuous
waxy gray | SpSuF
FW | s/t  |
Northern bayberry
Myrica heterophylla | NC | yellowish white
waxy blue | Sp
FW | s/t |
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| Codes: |
N=north
C=central
S=south |
Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter |
a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine |
i=invasive
ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans |
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Florida Native Plants
