Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Sweet bay magnolia is native to the coastal areas southeastern United States and north along the Atlantic coast to New York. They are often found in open woodlands, shaded woods, or swamps. It typically grows 10 to 35 feet tall and equally as wide. As a tree, it has a spreading, open rounded crown, or it may be a shorter, suckering, open, multi-stemmed shrub. Sweetbay Magnolia has fragrant flowers that are 4 to 6 inches across and open in the morning and close at night for 2 to 3 days. It is one of the last trees to lose its leaves in the fall and sometimes keeps them all winter. Tolerant of most soil moistures.

Fall Color; Attracts: 🐛 🐝 🐦
Light: sun to part-shade
Soil: dry, medium, wet