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Tree
Perennial

Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

Look for it in bottomland forests, forested edges of brackish marshes, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White or shaded with pink
4-merous
Synsepalous calyx, lobes minute
4-lobed campanulate corolla
8-16 stamens

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Fruits broadly 2-winged

 

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

• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p067
• Landscaping with Native Trees p123
• Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p045
• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p119
• Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide p321
• Trees of the Southeastern United States p311
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p156

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Halesia diptera var. diptera   FAMILY Styracaceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Halesia diptera   FAMILY Styracaceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 152-01-002:
Halesia diptera   FAMILY Styracaceae

LESS THAN Flora of North America
Halesia diptera