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 ): Myricaceae
Morella caroliniensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Myricaceae
Morella caroliniensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Myricaceae
052-03-003
Myrica heterophylla

Common Name:
Pocossin Bayberry, Evergreen Bayberry, Swamp Candleberry, Southern Bayberry

Shrub
Perennial
More or less evergreen

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

Look for it in pocosins, wet savannas and pine flatwoods, sandhill seepage bogs, and other peaty or sandy-peaty wetlands, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet

Leaves:
Simple
Alternate

Flower:
Spring

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Brown coated with white wax
Drupe-like

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Gardening with Native Plants of the South p077
 Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p054




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image of Myrica heterophylla, image of Morella caroliniensis
Patrick D. McMillan      pdmmcarolinensis_fmnf1


May
Berkeley-Charleston Counties SC
Francis Marion National Forest

 

"And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." — Genesis 1:12