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Sweet Pepperbush
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Sweet Pepperbush

Clethra alnifolia

Clethra alnifolia, the coastal sweetpepperbush or summersweet, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Clethra of the family Clethraceae, native to eastern North America from southern Nova Scotia and Maine south to northern Florida, and west to eastern Texas.

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Sweet Pepperbush in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Vol. 1

The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Vol. 1

Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.215

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52867.