Chionanthus virginicus
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Chionanthus virginicus |
| Common name: | white fringetree |
| 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 |
| Flower: | white, deeply lobed corolla, lobes thread-like |
| Flowering 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: |  |
| 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) |