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This southeastern species has the remarkable habit of often growing as a creeping vine under the bark of Taxodium ascendens or Chamaecyparis, the branches exserted through the cypress bark, sometimes ascending into the upper canopy with the main stem never visible except at the very base of the tree; it also sometimes grows as a low shrub. See Godfrey & Wooten (1981) and Godfrey (1989) for excellent descriptions and illustrations of this curious "shrub-vine", per Weakley's Flora (2022)

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pieris phillyreifolia   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Pieris phillyreifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Pieris phillyreifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Ampelothamnus phillyreifolius

COMMON NAME:
Vine-wicky, Climbing Fetterbush, Climbing Wicky

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Will Stuart    wil_8578178428_5881ea1cdd

March    Pickens County    SC

SC Botanical Garden

The only viny member of the Ericaceae in the United States, per Flora of North America.

Alan S. Weakley    asw_968183244350757

April        FL

Apalachicola National Forest

Leaves dark green, oblong, leathery; margins smooth or may be minutely toothed beyond midleaf, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pieris phillyreifolia   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pieris phillyreifolia   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pieris phillyreifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Pieris phillyreifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ampelothamnus phillyreifolius