Sweet Pepperbush

The herbarium specimen from Polk County almost certainly has a wrong location.  Lithia is in Hillsborough County and the most likely translation of a wrongly written latitude and longitude is also in Hillsborough County -- but the exact location would have been agricultural in 1962.



Hedges, back borders. Blooms in summer.

Tolerant of occasional/brief inundation such as can occur in storm surges.



High. Can tolerate significant and ongoing amounts of salty wind and salt spray without injury.

Attracts hummingbirds.

Birds and other small wildlife consume the seed (https://wildflower.org)

Moist-wet areas, acid soils. Wet flatwoods, savannas, swamps, stream banks, bogs, other wet areas.

• Aroma, fragrance, Showy flowers
• Attracts butterflies and bees which have evolved to take advantage of narrow, tubular flowers.