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Berberidaceae family
Nevin's Barberry Mahonia nevinii
Native
Early-season nectar — Flowers in a late-winter / early-spring window when few other plants in our catalog bloom — valuable early forage for pollinators (relative to our catalog's bloom coverage).
Nevin's Barberry is a perennial shrub native to the lower 48 states. It blooms Mar – Apr.
Shrub layer — Sits in the shrub of a layered food forest or polyculture.Open guide →
derived roles
The garden yearbloom → fruit → fall colour
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Bloom (the flower's colour)
Bloom · Mar – Apr — 13 obs · Herbarium specimens — Park et al. 2023 (CC BY 4.0)
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a
guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Named species (a documented Nearctic sample, not exhaustive) from NHM HOSTS (CC0).
Species thumbnails re-hosted from iNaturalist — Creative Commons, credited per image (hover for credit). Click any species to see it on iNaturalist. Not exhaustive; many taxa have no openly-licensed photo yet.
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