OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 7 taxa in the family Styracaceae, Storax family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon Common Name: Common Silverbell

Weakley's Flora: (4/7/08) Halesia tetraptera var. tetraptera   FAMILY: Styracaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Halesia tetraptera var. tetraptera   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Halesia carolina 152-01-001   FAMILY: Styracaceae

 

Look for it on moist slopes, in coves, creekbanks, bottomlands

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Mountain Silverbell

Weakley's Flora: (4/7/08) Halesia tetraptera var. monticola   FAMILY: Styracaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Halesia tetraptera var. monticola   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Halesia carolina 152-01-001?   FAMILY: Styracaceae

 

Look for it in cove forests, moist ridges, mostly above 1000m in elevation

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Common Two-wing Silverbell

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Halesia diptera var. diptera   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Halesia diptera   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Halesia diptera 152-01-002   FAMILY: Styracaceae

 

Habitat: Bottomland forests, forested edges of brackish marshes

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Little Silverbell

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Halesia carolina   FAMILY: Styracaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Halesia carolina   FAMILY: Styracaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Halesia parviflora 152-01-003   FAMILY: Styracaceae

 

Habitat: Sandy alluvial forests, calcareous hammocks

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Bigleaf Snowbell, Bigleaf Storax, Large-leaved Storax

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Styrax grandifolius   FAMILY: Styracaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Styrax grandifolius   FAMILY: Styracaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Styrax grandifolia 152-02-001   FAMILY: Styracaceae

 

Habitat: Mesic to dry upland forests, bluffs

Common in Piedmont, uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Mountains

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: American Storax, American Snowbell

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Styrax americanus var. americanus   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Styrax americanus   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Styrax americana 152-02-002   FAMILY: Styracaceae

 

Habitat: Swamp forests, pocosin edges, depression wetlands, other moist to wet habitats

Uncommon (rare in SC Mountains & NC Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Downy American Snowbell

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Styrax americanus var. pulverulentus   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Styrax americanus   FAMILY: Styracaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Styrax americana 152-02-002?   FAMILY: Styracaceae

 

Habitat: Wet pine flatwoods

Rare

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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"It is important to remember that the classification system and the keys we use in conjunction with it are artificial contrivances, created in an effort to recast what the human mind perceives as the chaotic diversity of nature into orderly patterns...." — Richard M. Smith, Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains