Swamp Bay

This species and other members of the Lauraceae are being attacked by a serious, fatal disease. Do not plant this plant unless you are absolutely sure that it is not infected!



If you have this plant in your landscape, retain it to supply larval food for the spicebush swallowtail and other butterflies.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Do not move deadwood. It will spread the disease.

Seed eaten and dispersed by birds.

Shallow areas in swamps, hydric savannas, seep slopes including cutthroat seeps, wet flatwoods, sloughs.

• Aroma, fragrance
• Larval host plant for palamedes swallowtail (Papilio palamedes) and spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus) butterflies.
• Attracts bees.