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Read more about Buttonbush at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Cephalanthus occidentalis
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cephalanthus occidentalis
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-02-001:
Cephalanthus occidentalis
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Buttonbush
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ceoc2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_ceoc2_005_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_ceoc2_009_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm070328_012
March Greenville County SC
Fruit a globular head of seed superficially similar to small sycamore fruit, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide.
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JK Marlow jkm160416_236
April Lowndes County GA
Rubiaceae is distinctive in that the stipules of opposite leaves are connate, per Plant Systematics.
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JK Marlow jkm150529_118
May Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0506k_04b
June Union County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
Leaves ovate to elliptic, tips cuspidate or acute, margins entire, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0506k_04c
June Union County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm0506k_20
June Union County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
A large coarse wetland shrub, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm0506k_25
June Union County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm130628_319
June Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
Numerous sessile flowers radiating in dense spherical heads, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm130628_319b
June Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
Small tubular flowers with protruding styles in dense pincushion-like heads, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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JK Marlow jkm190604_8895
June Greenville County SC
Leaves opposite or whorled 3-4 to the node & up to about 7" long x 4" wide, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_occidentalis_5
July
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Gill Newberry gn08_c_occidentallis_bran
August
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JK Marlow jkm210818_2852
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0509g_04
September Cabarrus County NC
Suther Prairie
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JK Marlow jkm0509g_13
September Cabarrus County NC
Suther Prairie
Fruit a dense head of nutlets, reddish-brown, persisting through the winter, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_occidentalis_button
Month Unknown DeKalb County AL
Little River Canyon
Admired in Europe, but largely unappreciated in the southeast US, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast.