Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Lauraceae
Lindera subcoriacea

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Lauraceae
Lindera subcoriacea

Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Lauraceae
084-04-X
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Common Name:
Bog Spicebush

Shrub Tree
Perennial
Deciduous
Dioecious or Polygamo-dioecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in peaty seepage bogs in headwaters of blackwater streams, in the sandhills and immediately adjacent Piedmont, with other pocosin shrubs, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Simple
Alternate

Flower:
Spring
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
3-merous
Perianth undifferentiated, 6 segments
9 fertile stamens on staminate flowers

Fruit:
Summer
Red
Drupe

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p062




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"The natural world, to be seen truly, must be seen whole, even as a mosaic can be perceived only when its multiple fragments are joined. Once you have identified a plant, what other organisms might you expect to find in its company? What patterns reveal themselves when we look at the entire complex of organisms in, on, or around a plant?" — John Eastman, Book of Field and Roadside.