Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Buxales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Buxus sempervirens
FAMILY
Buxaceae
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Learn more about Boxwood from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buxus sempervirens
FAMILY
Buxaceae
COMMON NAME:
Boxwood, Common Box
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Buxus sempervirens
FAMILY
Buxaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buxus sempervirens
FAMILY
Buxaceae
4280
Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Monoecious
Non-native: Europe
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Waif(s)
Look for it to be persistent for decades at abandoned homesites, and spreading weakly from dumped hedge trimmings and other cuttings, 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
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have short, minutely hairy petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring
Creamy yellow
Unisexual
4 sepals in staminate flowers, 6 sepals in pistillate flowers
Petals absent
4 stamens in staminate flowers
FRUIT:
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