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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Leitneria floridana   FAMILY Simaroubaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leitneria floridana   FAMILY Leitneriaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Leitneria floridana

 

COMMON NAME:
Florida Corkwood


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image of Leitneria floridana, Florida Corkwood

Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) (Sargent, 1905)    mtna_i_200

        

image of Leitneria floridana, Florida Corkwood

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lefl_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Leitneria floridana   FAMILY Simaroubaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leitneria floridana   FAMILY Leitneriaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Leitneria floridana

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Leitneria floridana

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2589

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Dioecious or polygamo-dioecious

Habitat: swamps and cabbage palm / sawgrass marshes, especially in the transition zones between coastal hydric hammocks (oak and palm with limestone near the surface) and sawgrass marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
4 tepals in pistillate flowers

Flowers in ascending catkins

FRUIT:
Olive-brown
Drupe

 

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