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Weakley's
Flora (
4/7/08
):
Ericaceae
Kalmia buxifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database:
Ericaceae
Leiophyllum buxifolium
GREATER THAN
Vascular
Flora of the Carolinas (1968):
Ericaceae
145-07-001
Leiophyllum buxifolium var. buxifolium
GREATER THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas:
Leiophyllum buxifolium var. prostratum
Common Name:
Sand-myrtle, Mountain Myrtle
Shrub
Perennial
Evergreen
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (GA Special Concern)
Documented growing
wild in
GA
NC
SC
Look for it - locally abundant but very restricted in wet (spodosol) pinelands of outer Coastal Plain (in Brunswick & Carteret Counties, NC), locally common in relatively dry sandhills in a few locations in the Sandhills, disjunct in Piedmont on a few quartzite monadnocks, fairly common in the mountains on rock outcrops at high to moderate elevations (on a wide variety of rock types), per Weakley's Flora
To see a detailed
map, click
here.
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...Wet
...Variable
...Dry
Leaves:
Simple
Alternate or opposite
Flower:
Spring/Summer
White
Bisexual
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, about as long as the petals
Superior ovary
Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
To learn more about
this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p226
Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p092
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p109
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p290
Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p134
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p179
Wildflowers of Tennessee p099
Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p27
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JK Marlow
jkm060521_162
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May
Macon County
NC
Highlands Biological Station
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JK Marlow
jkm070518_019
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May
Avery County
NC
Grandfather Mountain
Acknowledgments
to
Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review
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JK Marlow
jkm070518_021
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May
Avery County
NC
Grandfather Mountain
Acknowledgments
to
Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review
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JK Marlow
jkm070519_024
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May
Avery County
NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Acknowledgments
to
Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review
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JK Marlow
jkm070519_024b
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May
Avery County
NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The 1/4" wide flowers have 5 spreading petals & 10 protruding stamens, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide.
Acknowledgments
to
Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review
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Ron Lance
rwl_lbuxifolium
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May
Avery County
NC
Grandfather Mountain
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JK Marlow
jkm0407m_05
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July
Sevier County
TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow
jkm0407v_22
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July
Mitchell County
NC
The Roan Highlands
Leiophyllum buxifolium var. prostratum?
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