OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

Your search found 2 taxa in the family Thymelaeaceae, Mezereum family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Eastern Leatherwood, Leatherbark, Wicopee, Rope-bark

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Dirca palustris   FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Dirca palustris   FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dirca palustris 133-01-001   FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae

 

Habitat: Very rich forests, on slopes or bottomlands, limited to calcareous or mafic rocks such as limestone, calcareous siltstone, calcareous shale, gabbro, or amphibolite, in marl ravine bottoms in the Coastal Plain of VA, in Ashe County NC ascending to 1500 meters elevation

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Paperbush, Mitsumata

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Edgeworthia papyrifera   FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Edgeworthia chrysantha   FAMILY: Thymelaeaceae

 

Habitat: Cove forests, rarely planted and rarely persistent or naturalized

Waif(s)

Non-native: east Asia

 


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