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Pieris phillyreifolia

Botanic Family

Ericaceae

Author

(Hooker) de Candolle

Common Names

• Climbing Heath
• Vine-wicky
• Climbing fetterbush

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Florida
• Georgia
• Mississippi
• South Carolina-U.S.A.

Natural Habitats

• Swamp
• pinelands

Flowering Times

• Mar

Fruiting Times

Climbing rhizomatous shrub or vine climbing by means of flattened rhizomes, with leathery glabrescent serrate leaves to 70mm x 27mm, axillary racemes with small bracts & bracteoles to 2mm long, white flowers, pubescent or hairy calyx lobes to 5mm x 1.5mm, 5-ridged white corolla to 8.5mm x 5mm, ribbed glabrous capsule 4mm x 5.3mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NYBG
• USDA
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• JAA