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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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...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

 

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

• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p358
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p090
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p298
• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p112
• Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p037
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p129
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p137
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p237

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 (1968) 145-12-002a:
Leucothoe axillaris var. axillaris   FAMILY Ericaceae