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
Lyonia lucida

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Ericaceae
Lyonia lucida

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Ericaceae
145-11-003
Lyonia lucida

Common Name:
Shining Fetterbush, Lyonia

Shrub
Perennial
Evergreen

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

Look for it in pocosins, wet woodlands, blackwater swamp forests, other acidic wetlands, esp if peaty, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet ...Moist

Leaves:
Simple
Alternate

Flower:
Spring/Summer
Pink/Rarely white
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
10 stamens
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 p307
Gardening with Native Plants of the South p091
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p111
Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p137
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p181
Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p116




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JK Marlow      jkm060423_024


April
Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest

Distinguishable by glossy coriaceous lvs & prominent vein along margins, per Weakley's Flora

 

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Jerry Bright      jeb_mg_0672


May
Kershaw County
Goodale State Park

Corolla less than 5mm broad, usually pink, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

 

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Jerry Bright      jeb_mg_4342


May
Kershaw County SC
Goodale State Park

 

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