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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.

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bibliographic citation: John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY

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Lyonia fruticosa

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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).^[2]^[3]

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.^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

References

^ Tropicos
^ ^a ^b ^c Flora of North America. Lyonia fruticosa (Michaux) G. S. Torrey, 1916. Poor-grub
^ BONAP (Biota of North America Program) 2014 county distribution map, Lyonia fruticosa
^ Torrey, George Safford. 1916. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51(10): 527.
^ Michaux, André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana 1: 252.
^ Nash, George Valentine. 1895. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 22(4): 153.
^ Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1981. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States Dicotyledons 1–944. Univ. Georgia Press, Athens.
^ Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
^ EOL Encyclopedia of Life,

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Lyonia fruticosa: Brief Summary

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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.

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