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Var. ligustrina is the usual variety in the Mountains and Piedmont, but extends as well into the Coastal Plain in NC and SC. This variety is very variable in leaf shape and size, some populations having leaves about 3 cm long and 1.3 cm wide, others with leaves to as large as 8 cm long and 5 cm wide. The plants with smaller leaves occur in bogs and other distinctly wet habitats, while plants with large leaves occur in thin soils in high elevation heath balds and thin soils around rock outcrops (as, for instance, on Grandfather Mountain, NC), per Weakley's Flora (2022)

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-11-001:
Lyonia ligustrina   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arsenococcus ligustrinus

 

COMMON NAME:
Northern Maleberry, He-huckleberry

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-11-001:
Lyonia ligustrina   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Arsenococcus ligustrinus