Native to 🇨🇦 Canada;  and 🇺🇸 USA New England, Great Lakes and Appalachia.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database) Genus used as host by caterpillars of 55 species
of 🦋 butterflies and moths, in some areas.

Saplings can be killed, and growth and regeneration of this plant can be severely limited, by large populations of western moose Alces alces andersoni , who will eat buds and branches in winter, when their preferred food (forbs, aquatics, and willow and birch shoots) is unavailable.

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