Elliottia Racemosa
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''Elliottia racemosa'', the Georgia plume or summer plume, is a plant in the family
Ericaceae The Ericaceae () are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with about 4,250 known species spread acros ...
, and is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the U.S. state of
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. The plant is found in
habitat In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ...
s of moist
stream bank In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water. Different structures are referred to as ''banks'' in different fields of geography. In limnology (the study of inland waters), a stream bank or river bank is the terrain alongsid ...
s to dry ridges, and are usually in sandy soil. It is found at scattered locations in eastern and southern Georgia.


Description

''Elliottia racemosa'' is a rarely occurring
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
shrub A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple ...
or sometimes small tree. The leaves are three to four inches long and one to two inches wide. It blooms with white flowers, with four petals. It produces a dry fruit. The shrub was discovered and illustrated by William Bartram in 1775 and later rediscovered and described in 1808 by the
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Stephen Elliott. The species is listed as
threatened A threatened species is any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensatio ...
.


References

Ericoideae Endemic flora of Georgia (U.S. state) Threatened flora of the United States {{Ericaceae-stub