''Eubotrys racemosa'' (
syn.
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* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
''Leucothoe racemosa'') is a species of flowering plant in the
heath family
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known by the common names fetterbush, swamp doghobble, and swamp sweetbells.
It is native to the
Eastern United States
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, where its distribution extends along the
coastal plain
A coastal plain is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and a piedmont area. Some of the largest coastal plains are in Alaska and the southeastern United States. The Gulf Co ...
from
to
Florida
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to
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
.
[Coladonato, Milo. 1992]
''Leucothoe racemosa''.
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Description
''Eubotrys racemosa'' is a
shrub growing up to 4 meters tall. The thin, smooth leaves have oval to widely lance-shaped blades with serrated margins. The leaves are 3 to 8 centimeters long, with small and larger leaves occurring together on a branch. The leaves are
deciduous
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.
The
inflorescence
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is a row of bell-shaped white flowers each just under a centimeter long. The fruit is a capsule.
[''Eubotrys racemosa''.]
Flora of North America.
Habitats
This shrub grows in coastal plain habitat among pine
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s such as loblolly, slash
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, and shortleaf pine
''Pinus echinata'', the shortleaf pine, is a species of pine native to the southeastern United States.
Description
The tree is variable in form, sometimes straight, sometimes crooked, with an irregular crown. The tree reaches heights of with a ...
s, and oak
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species. It occurs in several habitat types including savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...
, forest, bog
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, and pocosin
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. The climate is mild in the winter and hot and humid in the summer. It is not tolerant of shade and is usually found in full sunlight. It can be found growing with swamp blackgum (''Nyssa sylvatica'' var. ''biflora''), loblolly bay
Loblolly was a porridge or stew, coming to mean swamp. It is used in the names of:
* Loblolly pine (''Pinus taeda''), a tree
*Loblolly-bay
''Gordonia lasianthus'' (loblolly-bay, holly-bay, gordonia, or bay) is a small to medium-sized evergreen ...
(''Gordonia lasianthus''), sweetbay (''Persea borbonia''), red maple
''Acer rubrum'', the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest Service recognizes it as the most abundant nati ...
(''Acer rubrum''), titi
The titis, or titi monkeys, are New World monkeys of the subfamily Callicebinae, which contains three extant genera: ''Cheracebus'', ''Callicebus'', and ''Plecturocebus.'' This subfamily also contains the extinct genera ''Miocallicebus, Homuncu ...
(''Cyrilla racemiflora''), southern white cedar (''Chamaecyparis thyoides''), hurrahbush (''Lyonia lucida''), sweet pepperbush (''Clethra alnifolia''), southern bayberry (''Myrica cerifera''), and laurelleaf greenbrier (''Smilax laurifolia'').[
The leaves of this plant are poisonous to ]livestock
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References
External links
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USDA Plants ProfileThe Nature Conservancy
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Vaccinioideae
Flora of the Northeastern United States
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Flora of Texas
Plants described in 1803