Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Dipsacales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Abelia ×grandiflora
FAMILY
Linnaeaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Abelia ×grandiflora [chinensis × uniflora]
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
COMMON NAME:
Abelia
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Paul Thompson pstabelia_grandiflora
September?
New stems are red. — Clemson Extension
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Keith Bradley kab_a_xgrandiflora_3216
December Richland County SC
Flowers white-flushed pink. Sepals persist, evolving rose to purplish tinge, per Manual of Woody Landscape Plants.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Abelia ×grandiflora
FAMILY
Linnaeaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Abelia ×grandiflora [chinensis × uniflora]
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
3010
Shrub
Perennial
Non-native: the parent species are native to China
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare
Look for it in suburban thickets. It is commonly planted, sometimes persistent or rarely weakly naturalizing, per Weakley's Flora
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.
LEAVES:
Evergreen/Tardily deciduous
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Whitish-pink
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!