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Lyonia ligustrina (maleberry; he-huckleberry)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lyonia ligustrina is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common names maleberry and he-huckleberry. It is native to the eastern United States from Maine to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma. This shrub grows up to 4 meters tall. It has long rhizomes which may send up new stems up to 4 meters apart. The stems have longitudinally furrowed bark. The leaves may be deciduous or not, depending on variety. They are oval in shape and up to 10.5 centimeters long by 5 wide. The small flowers are white. The fruit is a small, dry capsule.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Fire Tolerance [1]  Low
Frost Free Days [1]  4 months 8 days
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Winter
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Cutting
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [1]  Medium
Structure [2]  Shrub
Flower Color [1]  White
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Height [1]  8.856 feet (2.7 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [1]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [1]  Infertile
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous

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Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0