4148

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Non-native: Australia

Documented growing wild in - - -

Look for it in wetlands, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Southeast
• SC Department of Natural Resources Aquatic Nuisance Species List, 2003
• SC List of Regulated Pest Plant Species, 2017
• USDA Federal Noxious Weed List, 093014

 

 

...Wet

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have short petioles.
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Unisexual
Numerous stamens
Flowers in showy 1-3" bottlebrush-like spikes at branch tips

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

• Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control p058
• New Invaders of the Southeast p075

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Myrtales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Melaleuca quinquenervia   FAMILY Myrtaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melaleuca quinquenervia   FAMILY Myrtaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH The genera of Myrtaceae in the southeastern US (Wilson, 1960)
Melaleuca leucodendron

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Melaleuca leucadendra