NameThatPlant.net: Lindera subcoriacea

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Magnoliids: Laurales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY Lauraceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Lindera from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY Lauraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)
Lindera benzoin

COMMON NAME:
Bog Spicebush, Streamhead Spicebush

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image of Lindera subcoriacea, Bog Spicebush, Streamhead Spicebush

Will Stuart wil_8441791251_4464a783ac

March Orange County NC

North Carolina Botanical Garden

The overall range of this newly described species is still poorly known, per Weakley's Flora.

COMPARE flowers of Sassafras and Spicebush

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY Lauraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lindera subcoriacea FAMILY Lauraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)
Lindera benzoin

2543

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Dioecious or polygamo-dioecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare, apparently endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Look for it in peaty seepage bogs in headwaters of blackwater streams, in the sandhills and immediately adjacent Piedmont, with other pocosin shrubs, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
3-merous
6 deciduous tepals
9 fertile stamens on staminate flowers
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Red
Drupe

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