Lyonia fruticosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Lyonia
- Species
- Lyonia fruticosa
- Scientific Name
- Lyonia fruticosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lyonia fruticosa
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. Its flowers are white, urn-shaped, hanging downward. The fruit is a dry, egg-shaped capsule about 4 mm (0.16 in) in diameter.
...Lyonia fruticosa in languages:
- English
- coastal plain staggerbush
- English
- the poor-grub
- English
- coastalplain staggerbush
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Lyonia affinis
- Lyonia alainii
- Lyonia alpina
- Lyonia buchii
- Lyonia chapaensis
- Lyonia compta
- Lyonia doyonensis
- Lyonia ekmanii
- Lyonia elliptica
- Lyonia ferruginea
- Lyonia fruticosa
- Lyonia glandulosa
- Lyonia heptamera
- Lyonia jamaicensis
- Lyonia latifolia
- Lyonia ligustrina
- Lyonia lippoldii
- Lyonia longipes
- Lyonia lucida
- Lyonia macrocalyx
- Lyonia macrophylla
- Lyonia maestrensis
- Lyonia mariana
- Lyonia microcarpa
- Lyonia myrtilloides
- Lyonia nipensis
- Lyonia obtusa
- Lyonia octandra
- Lyonia ovalifolia
- Lyonia rubiginosa
- Lyonia squamulosa
- Lyonia stahlii
- Lyonia tinensis
- Lyonia trinidadensis
- Lyonia truncata
- Lyonia tuerckheimii
- Lyonia urbaniana
- Lyonia villosa