NameThatPlant.net: Buckleya distichophylla

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Santalales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Buckleya distichophylla FAMILY Santalaceae NEW! Click to go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read about The Puzzling Piratebush from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

Read more about Buckleya at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buckleya distichophylla FAMILY Santalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 060-03-001:
Buckleya distichophylla FAMILY Santalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buckleya distichophylla

COMMON NAME:
Buckleya, Piratebush

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Buckleya distichophylla FAMILY Santalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buckleya distichophylla FAMILY Santalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 060-03-001:
Buckleya distichophylla FAMILY Santalaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buckleya distichophylla

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Shrub
Perennial
Dioecious

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare, endemic to the Southern Appalachians

Habitat: Dry or rocky bluffs and slopes, usually with pines or hemlock, and most common in scrubby pine-oak/heath woodlands, also rich woods and stream banks, per Weakley's Flora

map
NEW! Click here to see a range map (and maybe identification notes) from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
Unisexual
4 sepals
Petals absent

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Drupe

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