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LAUREL FAMILY
(LAURACEAE)
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Bird food
- Lancewood fruit: wood thrushes
- Redbay fruit: bluebirds, bobwhites, fish crows, robins, other songbirds
- Sassafras fruit: bluebirds, brown thrashers, catbirds, crested flycatchers, flickers, kingbirds, mockingbirds, phoebes, pileated woodpeckers, red- and white-eyed vireos, red-headed woodpeckers, sapsuckers, thrushes
- Spice bush seeds: catbirds, kingbirds, great crested flycatchers, red-eyed vireos, thrushes, many others
Butterfly larval food: Spicebush Swallowtail
Wildlife food
Wildlife shelter
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name |
area | flower
& fruit |
season |
other |
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Spice bush
Lindera benzoin | N | yellow
red | W
F | s |
Lancewood
Nectandra coriacea | S | white
dark blue | SpSuFW
FW | s/t |
Redbay
Persea borbonia | NCS | yellowish
blue-black | SpSuF
SuF | s/t |
Silk bay
Persea humilis | C | yellowish
purplish black | Sp
F | t |
Swamp bay
Persea palustris | NCS | yellowish | Sp | s/t |
Sassafras
Sassafras albidum | NC | green-yellow
blue | Sp
SpSuF | 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