Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Santalales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Nestronia umbellula
FAMILY
Santalaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read Conjurer's Nut? or Not from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Nestronia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Nestronia umbellula
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 060-02-001:
Nestronia umbellula
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nestronia umbellula
COMMON NAME:
Nestronia, Conjurer's-nut, Leechbush
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JK Marlow jkm120415_047
April Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Many populations consist of all male or all female plants, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm120415_050
April Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Small greenish flowers w 4-5 petal-like sepals. Male flowers are in umbels, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm120415_053
April Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Resembling an opposite-leaved lowbush blueberry, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120415_057
April Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaves opposite, broad-bladed, 3-6cm long, acute or acuminate, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmnestronia_flwrktsp
April
Female flowers are borne singly in the axils of leaves, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmnestronia_pc1
Month Unknown Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmnestronia_pc3
Month Unknown Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Nestronia umbellula
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Nestronia umbellula
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 060-02-001:
Nestronia umbellula
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nestronia umbellula
968
Shrub
Perennial
Dioecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare (an endemic)
Habitat: Relatively mesic sites in sandhills in the upper Coastal Plain, mesic to dry Piedmont and montane oak forests, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring
Unisexual
4-5 sepals
Petals absent
FRUIT:
Summer
Drupe
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p202
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p057
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p218
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p140