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Your search found 7 taxa in the family Styracaceae, Storax family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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