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Taxon: Halesia carolina L.

 
Genus: Halesia
Family: Styracaceae
Nomen number: 18215
Place of publication: Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:1044. 1759
Link to protologue:
Comment: non Halesia carolina auct. (= H. tetraptera J. Ellis)
Typification: View in Linnean Typification Project
Name Verified on: 12-Mar-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

Common names:

  • Carolina silverbell  (Source: Trees US) - English
  • Florida silverbell  (Source: Trees US) - English
  • little silverbell  (Source: Trees US) - English
  • mountain silverbell  (Source: Trees US) - English
  • silverbell-tree  (Source: Taxon) - English
  • snowdroptree  (Source: Taxon) - English
  • snödroppsträd  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
  • storblommigt snödroppsträd  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter; shade/shelter

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Indiana, Ohio (s.), West Virginia (s.)]
    • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois (s.), Oklahoma]
    • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida (n.), Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia (s.w.)]


    Cultivated (also cult.)

    Naturalized

    Northern America
    • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island]


References:

  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) URL: www.skud.info
  2. Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:227.
  3. Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle
  4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
  5. Fritsch, P. W. & S. D. Lucas. 2000. Clinal variation in the Halesia carolina complex (Styracaceae). Syst. Bot. 25:197-210. DOI: 10.2307/2666639 URL: www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
  6. Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976)
  7. Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States
  8. Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541
  9. Reveal, J. L. & M. J. Selden. 1975. On the identity of Halesia carolina (Styracaceae). Taxon 25:123-140.
  10. Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
  11. Wofford, B. E. Database of Tennessee vascular plants (on-line resource). URL: https://herbarium.utk.edu/vascular/vascular-database.php?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Styracaceae&GenusID=Halesia&SpeciesID=carolina target='_blank'
  12. 2018. Oklahoma vascular plant database

Check other web resources for Halesia carolina L. :

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=18215. Accessed 6 July 2024.