Calycanthus floridus L. - Sweet-shrub, Strawberry Bush

Calycanthus floridus L. - Sweet-shrub
Photo © by Peter Nelson
Taken at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NY, 1971.
Common Names
Sweet-shrub, Strawberry BushGeneral Discussion
This species is native to the southeastern U.S., ranging as far north as southeastern Pennsylvania. It is often used as a landscaping plant and has been reported from a handful of sites in our area. Most (all?) of these reports most likely represent cultivated specimens, no definitive adventive populations have been seen.