OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 1 taxon in the family Simaroubaceae, Quassia family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Ailanthus, Tree-of-heaven, Stink-tree

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Ailanthus altissima   FAMILY: Simaroubaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Ailanthus altissima   FAMILY: Simaroubaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ailanthus altissima 104-01-001   FAMILY: Simaroubaceae

 

Habitat: Roadsides, forests, disturbed areas, including cities, especially in moist, fertile soils

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)

Non-native: east Asia

 


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"It is curious that the news media have drawn our attention to the loss of tropical forests yet have been silent when it comes to how we have devastated our own forests here in the temperate zone." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home