OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 2 taxa in the family Calycanthaceae, Strawberry Shrub family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Sweetshrub, Carolina Allspice, Strawberry-shrub

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Calycanthus floridus   FAMILY: Calycanthaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Calycanthus floridus var. glaucus   FAMILY: Calycanthaceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Calycanthus floridus var. laevigatus 083-01-001b   FAMILY: Calycanthaceae

 

Habitat: Mesic to dry-mesic forests and streambanks; in the East Gulf Coastal plain in dry-mesic beech-magnolia bluff forests and lower slopes of sandhills

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC) (rare in NC Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Wintersweet

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Chimonanthus praecox   FAMILY: Calycanthaceae

 

Habitat: Suburban woodlands, persistent or weakly spreading from horticultural use

Non-native: east Asia

 


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"Although prairies may be grasslands in terms of sheer volume of vegetation, about three out of every four plant species found there are wildflowers. Prairies are blossom lands and thus, butterfly lands." — Douglas Chadwick, The American Prairie, Root of the Sky, National Geographic, October 1993