1245

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Bottomland forests, other moist forests, marl marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
No nodal spines; no internodal prickles

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves palmately veined
Alternate
Petioles 1-7cm long

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Cream to greenish-white sepals, whitish petals
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in racemes of 4-many

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Berry

 

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