Twowing Silverbells

Use as a specimen plant or as an understory in a mixed hardwood forest setting. This tree blooms in early spring before the leaves come out.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Hummingbirds and cardinals are known to be interested in the nectar.  Squirrels may eat the fruits.

Dry-moist sites. Upland hardwood forests on fertile mesic slopes and ravines, hammocks, floodplain forests, slope forests, seep slopes, floodplains with short-term inundation.

• Fall color, Showy flowers
• Larval plant for several moth species.
• Primary pollinators are bees.