Coastal Plain Staggerbush

Xolisma fruticosa (Michx.) Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 153. 1895
Andromeda ferruginea fruHcos a Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 252. 1803.
Andromeda ferruginea Pursh, Fl. Am, Sept. 292. 1814. Not A. ferruginea Walt. 1788.
Lyonia ferruginea Nutt. Gen. 1: 266. 1818.
An erect shrub 2 m. tall or less, with pale-scurfy twigs; leaves much reduced in size at the ends of the branchlets, the blades oval or obovate to oblanceolate, mostly 1-5 cm. long, acute or abruptly acuminate at both ends, or sometimes obtuse, prominently reticulate, brightgreen or shining above, pale or glaucous beneath, short-petioled; panicles cluster-like, often approximate on the elongate branchlets; calyx mostly 3-4 mm. wide, sometimes wider in age, the lobes deltoid-ovate or nearly reniform, often wider than long; corolla 3-4 mm. long; filaments pubescent; anthers fully 1 mm. long; capsules ovoid, 4-6 mm. long.
Type locai,ity: Florida.
Distribution: South Carolina to Florida.

Lyonia fruticosa, the poor-grub or coastal plain staggerbush, is a plant species native to the US states of Florida, southern Georgia and the extreme southern part of South Carolina. It grows in pine woodlands and shrub bogs at elevations less than 100 meters (333 feet).

Lyonia fruticosa is an evergreen shrub up to 3 m (10 feet) tall. Leaves are broadly elliptical, up to 6 cm (2.4 inches) long. Flowers are white, urn-shaped, hanging downward. Fruit is a dry, egg-shaped capsule about 4 mm in diameter.