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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
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INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. oblongifolium
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. albicans
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. oblongifolium
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bumelia lanuginosa
COMMON NAME:
Eastern Gum Bumelia, Eastern Gum Bully
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_846
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bula_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_bula_004_lhd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_bula_005_lhd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_bula_006_lvp
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_sila20_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmslanuginosum_wheeler1
Month Unknown Wheeler County GA
Mature leaves pubescent beneath, hairs woolly-tomentose, not matted nor shiny, per Weakley's Flora.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmslanuginosum_wheeler2
Month Unknown Wheeler County GA
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum
FAMILY
Sapotaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. oblongifolium
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. albicans
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. oblongifolium
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bumelia lanuginosa
2167
Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Habitat: Dry upland forests and woodlands, glades, bluffs, prairies and saline barrens, roadsides, pastures, rises in bottomland forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA & SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
May be armed with spinose twig tips, spinose spur shoots, and/or nodal spines
LEAVES:
Deciduous to tardily deciduous
Simple
Alternate or clustered on spur shoots
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Plants not strongly rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
5 stamens & 5 staminodia, fused to corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in axillary clusters
FRUIT:
Drupe-like berry
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p513
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p248
- Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007) p315
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p359
- Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p224
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p326
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