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Britton and Brown. See
credits below.** |
| Botanical name: |
Chionanthus virginicus L. |
| Common name: | white fringetree | | Synonomy: | Chionanthus virginicus L. var. maritimus Pursh |
| Group: |
dicot |
| Family: |
Oleaceae |
| Growth
Type: |
tree
shrub |
| Duration: |
perennial |
| Origin: |
native |
| Plant
height: |
to 36' |
| Foliage: |
opposite, simple, ovate or oblong, with an entire margin |
| Flowers: |
white, deeply lobed corolla, lobes thread-like |
| Flowering/fruiting time |
late May to early June; fruits early autumn |
| Habitat: |
low, rich dry or moist, soil of woods and shaded edges, streamsides, bluffs |
| Range
in
New Jersey: |
local on southern part of the Coastal Plain |
| Heritage ranking if any: |
S3 |
| Distribution: |
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| Misc.: |
According to Stone, 1910, "found only in the low woods along the
lower part of the Maurice River and Cohansey Creek and up the
tributaries of the former to Buena Vista. Nuttall's reference to a
thirty-foot tree at 'Port Elizabeth' [Z. Collins] probably refers to
the village of that name below Millville in Cumberland County and not
Elizabeth in Union County, as given in Britton's Catalogue."(637)
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Sources
**USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 251. |
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