NameThatPlant.net: Leitneria floridana

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Leitneria floridana FAMILY Simaroubaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leitneria floridana FAMILY Leitneriaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Leitneria floridana

COMMON NAME:
Florida Corkwood

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image of Leitneria floridana, Florida Corkwood

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905) mtna_i_200

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_lefl_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Leitneria floridana FAMILY Simaroubaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leitneria floridana FAMILY Leitneriaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Leitneria floridana

2589

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Dioecious or polygamo-dioecious

Habitat: swamps and cabbage palm / sawgrass marshes, especially in the transition zones between coastal hydric hammocks (oak and palm with limestone near the surface) and sawgrass marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
4 tepals in pistillate flowers

Flowers in ascending catkins

FRUIT:
Olive-brown
Drupe

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"Common names should be written in lower case unless part of the name is proper and then the first letter of only the proper term is capitalized. For example, sugar maple would be written with lower case letters while Japanese maple would be written with the capital J. This is the accepted method for writing common names in scientific circles and should be familiar to the student. In this text, and many others, common names are written with capital first letters. This was done to set the name off from the rest of the sentence and make it more evident to the reader. Actually in modern horticultural writings the capitalized common name predominates." — Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

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