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Spicebush is in bloom and how welcome it is! I saw the honey-yellow flowers from the car as I was driving Fodderstack Road from Washington, Va. to Flint Hill. The next day I saw it along Route 647, Crest Hill Road. As far as plants are concerned, spring has arrived for me. This unobtrusive shrub is the signal.
Individual spicebush flowers are only 1/10 of an inch across; they appear in tight clusters along the twigs of this water-loving native shrub. When they first open, the flowers are a greenish-yellow; with maturity they are pure gold.
Male flowers with stamens are on one plant, female on another. They appear long before the bright green leaves. The female flower — the one with the pistil — has rudimentary stamens. Somewhere in the long evolutionary journey, these stamens have lost their ability to produce pollen — the very stuff of life.
Spicebush, Lindera benzoin, is in the Laurel family along with sassafras, Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia, to be specific, is not in this family but in the Heath family, Ericaceae, along with rhodendron, trailing arbutus, blueberry, azaleas and the
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