LAURACEAE: Laurel Family
KEY TO SPECIES OF LINDERA
1. Most leaf blades obovate and apex acuminate ....................... L. benzoin
1. Most leaf blades elliptic to oblanceolate or ovate and apex acute or obtuse to rounded .................................................... 2
2. Plant with a strong sassafraslike odor; most leaf blades drooping, apex of most acute, upperside with a small undulating pattern .............. L. melissaefolia
2. Plant with a faint piny-lemon odor; most leaf blades horizontal to ascending, apex mostly obtuse to rounded, upperside nearly flat ................. L. subcoriacea