TREE: Magnolia virginiana (Sweetbay or Swamp Magnolia)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Lovely, lemon-scented, cup-shaped flowers appear mid-spring and intermittently throughout summer, followed by showy, cone-like fruit. This elegant tree appears in two forms: often multi-trunked/deciduous north of North Carolina and single-trunked/evergreen southward. It is native to lowlands and freshwater swamps along the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf coasts.