Lyonia lucida

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NAMING

Scientific Name: Lyonialucida
Family: Ericaceae
Common: hinder

HABITAT

Native
Habitat: Flatwoods, wetlands
Range: coastal plains

TREE TRUNK

Size: Up to 8ft tall
Bark: grows with flexgabra, evergreen
Twigs: green, kealed twigs (edge)

LEAVES

Composition: simple
Arrangement: alternate
Shape: elliptical
Margin: entire
Venation: intermargin vein around leaf on upper glaborous
Upper surface: shiny

REPRODUCTION

Flowers: bell
Fruit: capsule, woody

USES

Wildlife – cover, browsed by deer

TOLERANCES

Fire – Burns hot, readily resprouts
Salt – intolerant
Drought – Moderate
Flood – High
Shade/Sun – tolerant

Vaccinium myrsinites

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NAMING

Scientific Name: Vaccinium myrsinites
Family: Ericaceae
Common: Shiny

HABITAT

Native
Habitat: pine flatwoods, sandhills
Range: Alabama -> Florida -> South Carolina

TREE TRUNK

Size: small, woody shrub, growth clumped
Bark: –
Twigs: –

LEAVES

Composition: simple
Arrangement: alternate
Shape: elliptic to oval
Margin: entire to serruate
Upper surface: shiny green above
Lower surface: some pubescence

REPRODUCTION

Flowers: pink-white, eurocetate
Fruit: berry, black when it matures

USES

Wildlife: eaten by birds
Commercial – native plant market

TOLERANCES

Fire – rapidly regrows

Toxicodendron radicons

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NAMING

Scientific Name: Toxicodendron radicons
Family: Ericaceae
Common: poison ivy

HABITAT

Native
Habitat: different sites
Range: All over

TREE TRUNK

Size:
Bark: climby woody vine, deciduous
Twigs: oils, highly allergic, aerial rootlets

LEAVES

Composition: trifoliate compound
Arrangement: alternate
Shape: lateral leaflate: lobe on exterior, ferminal: lobed or entlobe <hard to read>
Base: inequalateral, equilateral

REPRODUCTION

Flowers: inconspicuous
Fruit: drupe, translucent

USES

Wildlife – birds/small mammals

TOLERANCES

Shade/Sun: tolerant
Fire – bounces back
Salt – Low
Drought – Moderate
Flood – Moderate

Vaccinium stamineum

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NAMING

Scientific Name: Vaccinium stamineum
Family: Ericaceae
Common: deerberry

HABITAT

Native
Habitat: dry woodlands, flatwoods
Range: Texas -> Florida -> New York -> Indiana

TREE TRUNK

Size: 8 feet tall
Bark: deciduous, smooth, flaky as it matures
Twigs: –

LEAVES

Composition: simple
Arrangement: alternate
Shape: elliptic to oval
Apex: acute
Margin: entire
Upper surface: dark green
Lower surface: glucous underside

REPRODUCTION

Flowers: – eursilate, cream
Fruit: berry, blue-black

USES

Wildlife – deer, small mammals, ground birds eat fruit

TOLERANCES