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Your search found 2 taxa in the family Thymelaeaceae, Mezereum family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Eastern Leatherwood, Leatherbark, Wicopee, Rope-bark
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Dirca palustris FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Dirca palustris FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dirca palustris 133-01-001 FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae
Habitat: Very rich forests, on slopes or bottomlands, limited to calcareous or mafic rocks such as limestone, calcareous siltstone, calcareous shale, gabbro, or amphibolite, in marl ravine bottoms in the Coastal Plain of VA, in Ashe County NC ascending to 1500 meters elevation
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Paperbush, Mitsumata
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Edgeworthia papyrifera FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Edgeworthia chrysantha FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae
Habitat: Cove forests, rarely planted and rarely persistent or naturalized
Waif(s)
Non-native: east Asia
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