2636

Shrub
Perennial
Dioecious or polygamo-dioecious

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Rare

Look for it in calcareous scrub, shell middens, maritime forests and thickets, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
Greenish-white
Unisexual or bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4-merous
Synsepalous calyx
Petals absent

Flowers in axillary clusters

FRUIT:
Blue-black
Drupe

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p120?
• Trees of the Southeastern United States p094?
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p140

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Forestiera segregata var. segregata   FAMILY Oleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Forestiera segregata var. segregata   FAMILY Oleaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Forestiera globularis

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Forestiera porulosa