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Shrub
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Pdmt), endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain

Look for it in pocosins, blackwater swamp forests, and moist & acid slopes, per Weakley's Flora

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partial shade shade ...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
5-merous
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed urceolate corolla
Superior ovary
Flowers in axillary racemes, usually more than 15-flowered

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Leucothoe axillaris   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Leucothoe axillaris   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-12-002a:
 Leucothoe axillaris var. axillaris   FAMILY Ericaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Coastal Doghobble, Coastal Plain Doghobble

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image of Leucothoe axillaris, Coastal Doghobble, Coastal Plain Doghobble

Joanna Thurman    bjt_laxillaris_20170306

March    Horry County    SC

Leaves obtuse or acute to short-acuminate [vs. L. fontanesiana long-acuminate], per Weakley's Flora.

image of Leucothoe axillaris, Coastal Doghobble, Coastal Plain Doghobble

Joanna Thurman    bjt_laxillaris_20170306_b

March    Horry County    SC

Racemes with 8-44 flowers; sepals ovate, with an obtuse or rounded apex, per Weakley's Flora (2015).