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Shrub; Tree
Perennial

Habitat: Disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Japan & Korea

Common in GA & SC Coastal Plain (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

• Alabama Invasive Plant Council, 2012
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Northeast
• Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2006
• NC Department of Transportation
• SC Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2014
• SC Native Plant Society
• Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2009
• US Fish & Wildlife Service
• US Forest Service Southern Research Station

 

LEAVES:
Semi-evergreen
Simple
Opposite, or rarely alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/Cream
Radially symmetrical
4-merous
Synsepalous calyx, lobes obsolete
4-lobed salverform corolla
2 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Inflorescence a many-flowered terminal panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blue
Drupe

 

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

• Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007) p086
• A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests (Miller, Chambliss, & Lowenstein, 2010) p038
• Invasive Exotic Plants of North Carolina (Smith, 2008) p070
• New Invaders of the Northeast and Northcentral US (Rawlins et al., 2018) p069
• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p120
• Trees of the Southeastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1988) p096
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p192