Spicebush, Lindera benzoin, is sometimes called wild forsythia because both have yellow flowers that appear at the same time. By fall the berries have turned red; I had grown one from seed collected on property I own, but it was not mature enough to survive the very damaging Easter freeze of 2007. Crushing and smelling a leaf reveals the reason for the vernacular name, and supposedly twigs can be used to impart flavor similar to using cinnamon sticks considering how the source of cinnamon is in the same family. Spicebush is the larval food of the spicebush swallowtail butterfly. Spicebush is fairly common in low moist woods, but Jove’s Fruit, L. melissifolia, a rare species in the same genus is on the endangered species list, and bog spicebush, Lindera subcoriacea B.E. Wofford, is also rare.