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 Staphyleaceae, Bladdernut family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Bladdernut

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Staphylea trifolia   FAMILY: Staphyleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Staphylea trifolia   FAMILY: Staphyleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Staphylea trifolia 114-01-001   FAMILY: Staphyleaceae

 

Habitat: Nutrient-rich bottomland forests, extending upslope over calcareous or mafic rocks

Common in GA Mountains & Carolina Piedmont, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"The chestnut blight is of Asian origin and was transported to the Northeast in 1876 on Castanea crenata, resistant Japanese chestnut trees for ornamental trade.... Within 50 years, Castanea dentata, the dominant upland forest tree species from Maine to Mississippi... was functionally eliminated from the eastern deciduous forest ecosystem." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home