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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Viburnum lantanoides
FAMILY
Viburnaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read Viburnum lantanoides: Stained Glass in the High Country from George Ellison and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Hobblebush at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viburnum lantanoides
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-05-001:
Viburnum alnifolium FAMILY Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viburnum lantanoides
COMMON NAME:
Witch Hobble, Moosewood, Hobblebush, Tangle-legs
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vial3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0305s_20
May Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Leaves broadly egg-shaped or rounded, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
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JK Marlow jkm0505k_31
May Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm160502_099
May Macon County NC
Highlands Biological Station
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JK Marlow jkm160503_258
May Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm160503_268
May Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm160503_271
May Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Keith Bradley kab_v_lantanoides_73501
May NC
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvlantanoides_2pw3
May
Flowering stems with only one pair of leaves, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989).
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Dan Whitten sdw_051621_witchhobble
May NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The cyme's outer flowers sterile, 2.5-3cm broad; inner flowers perfect, 5-7mm, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Will Stuart wil_8753054451_2b45e92ffa
May NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150606_222
June Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150606_223
June Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150606_225
June Avery County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm0508c_09b
August Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Will Stuart wil_9628359905_12291e82c9
August Haywood County NC
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Will Stuart wil_9631591678_c012665f89
August Haywood County NC
Fruit a bright red drupe, becoming black after maturity, per Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance).
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1494
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Terminal buds 15-25mm long, scurfy, stalked, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1495
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Terminal buds covered by two embryonic folded leaves instead of scales, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1578
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm0511b_23
November Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Leaves mostly 4-8" long, bases heart-shaped, veins prominent, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvlantanoides_mj
Month Unknown Ashe County NC
Mount Jefferson
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Viburnum lantanoides
FAMILY
Viburnaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viburnum lantanoides
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-05-001:
Viburnum alnifolium
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viburnum lantanoides
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Shrub
Perennial
Habitat: spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, boulderfields, primarily over 1000 m elevation, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common in Mountains (rare in GA)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Creamy white
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual (inner flowers) & sterile (outer flowers)
FRUIT:
Summer
Black
Drupe
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p046
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p268
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p127
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p302
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p239
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p269
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p312
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance) p15
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p321
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p370
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