Symplocos tinctoria

common sweetleaf, sweetleaf, horsesugar, yellowwood, horse sugar, sweet leaf, horse-sugar, yellow-wood
Family

Symplocaceae

Leaf Arrangement

alternate

Leaf Attachment

petiolate

Leaf Margin

entire, crenate, serrate

Leaf Type

simple

Leaf Shape

elliptic, oblanceolate, obovate

Growth Form

shrub, tree

Flower Color

yellow

Flower Petals

5

Flower Month

February - September

Height (meters)

6.0

Milky Sap

No

Armed/Unarmed

Unarmed

Origin

native

Lifespan

perennial

Leaf Retention

Semi-evergreen


Wetland Class

FAC

Field Characters

Leaf has a sweet taste when chewed.

Habitat

Sandy thickets, upland or alluvial woods, stream margins and banks, swamps, bottomlands.