Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Santalales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Buckleya distichophylla
FAMILY
Santalaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about The Puzzling Piratebush from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Buckleya at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Buckleya distichophylla is apparently parasitic on a variety of hosts – not limited to Tsuga, as has sometimes been reported. The branches, with their neat and distichous array of simple leaves, are often mistaken for a compound leaf, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buckleya distichophylla
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Buckleya distichophylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Buckleya distichophylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 060-03-001:
Buckleya distichophylla FAMILY Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buckleya distichophylla
COMMON NAME:
Buckleya, Piratebush
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Buckleya distichophylla
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buckleya distichophylla
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Buckleya distichophylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Buckleya distichophylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 060-03-001:
Buckleya distichophylla
FAMILY
Santalaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buckleya distichophylla
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Shrub
Perennial
Dioecious
Habitat: Dry or rocky bluffs and slopes, usually with pines or hemlock, and most common in scrubby pine-oak/heath woodlands, also rich woods and stream banks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare in NC Mountains
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring
4 sepals
Petals absent
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Drupe
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p100
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast (Foote & Jones, 1989) p057
- Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge (Lance) p17
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p078
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