Myrica pensylvanicaMirb.

northern bayberry

WFO wfo-0001085143 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Barry Cottam
fig. a Barry Cottam, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 205763277
Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Micki Colbeck
fig. b Micki Colbeck, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187283361
Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Erik Schiff
fig. c Erik Schiff, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194776255
Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe
fig. d Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194488740
Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. e Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193396438
Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Violet T.
fig. f Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180271293
Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. g Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173657324
Myrica pensylvanica, photographed by Zac Peterson
fig. h Zac Peterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173968846

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Flowering n = 77 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 77 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cerothamnus pensylvanicus (Mirb.) Moldenke
  • Morella macfarlanei (Youngken) Kartesz
  • Morella pensylvanica (Mirb.) Kartesz
  • Myrica cerifera var. frutescens Castigl.
  • Myrica macfarlanei Youngken
  • Myrica pensylvanica f. parvifolia T.W.Wells

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.