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 ): Ericaceae
Pieris phillyreifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Ericaceae
Pieris phillyreifolia

Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Ericaceae
145-10-X
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933):
Ampelothamnus phillyreifolius

Common Name:
Vine-wicky, Climbing Fetterbush

Shrub Vine
Perennial
Evergreen

Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common (rare in GA & SC)
Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Look for it in swamp forests. This southeastern species has the remarkable habit of often growing as a creeping vine under the bark of Taxodium ascendens, the branches exserted thru the cypress bark, sometimes ascending into the upper canopy with the main stem never visible except at the very base of the tree; it also sometimes grows as a low shrub, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Simple

Flower:
Winter/Spring
White
Bisexual
Superior ovary

Fruit:

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p320
 Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p131
 Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p110
 Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p191




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