802

Shrub
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere

Look for it - locally abundant but very restricted in wet (spodosol) pinelands of outer Coastal Plain (in Brunswick & Carteret Counties, NC), locally common in relatively dry sandhills in a few locations in the Sandhills, disjunct in Piedmont on a few quartzite monadnocks, fairly common in the mountains on rock outcrops at high to moderate elevations (on a wide variety of rock types), per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Variable ...Dry

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate or opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Bisexual
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, about as long as the petals
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

• Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p092
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p226
• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p109
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p290
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p134
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p179
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p099
• Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p27
• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p290
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p188
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p222

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Kalmia buxifolia   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leiophyllum buxifolium   FAMILY Ericaceae

GREATER THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 145-07-001:
Leiophyllum buxifolium var. buxifolium   FAMILY Ericaceae

GREATER THAN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas
Leiophyllum buxifolium var. prostratum