미국때죽나무-[정명] Styrax americanus Lam.

과명	Styracaceae (때죽나무과)	속명	Styrax (때죽나무속)
전체학명	[정명] Styrax americanus Lam.	추천명	미국때죽나무
비추천명	스티락스 아메리카누스	영문명	Snowbell american

추천명변경: 북미때죽 -> 미국때죽나무

Common Name: American snowbell 

Type: Deciduous shrub

Family: Styracaceae

Native Range: Southeastern United States

Zone: 6 to 8

Height: 6.00 to 10.00 feet

Spread: 6.00 to 10.00 feet

Bloom Time: April to May

Bloom Description: White

Sun: Full sun to part shade

Water: Medium to wet

Maintenance: Medium

Flower: Showy, Fragrant

Attracts: Butterflies

Tolerate: Wet Soil

Culture

Best grown in acidic, organically rich, medium to wet soils with reasonable soil drainage in full sun to part shade. Performs well in moist sandy loams. Prune as needed in winter to shape. Propagate by seed or cuttings.

Noteworthy Characteristics

Styrax americanus, commonly called American snowbell, is a deciduous shrub or small tree that typically grows to 6-10' (less frequently to 15') tall. It is a wetland species that is native to wet woods, swamps, marsh peripheries, floodplains and stream banks, sometimes growing in standing water, primarily in the southeastern U. S. from Florida to eastern Texas north along the coastal plain to Virginia and up the Mississippi valley to southeastern Missouri and further up the Ohio valley to southern Illinois and southern Indiana. Shrubs in Missouri typically occur in bald cypress/tupelo swamps and wet woods in the far southeastern bootheel region.

American snowbell is particularly noted for its showy, bell-shaped, pendulous, mildly fragrant, white flowers (to 1/2" long) which bloom April to early June, singly or in clusters of 1-4, from the leaf axils or stem ends. Each flower has five reflexed petals. Flowers give way to hairy subglobose fruits (1/3" long) which mature to grayish brown in fall. Elliptic to ovate dark green leaves (to 3" long) are mostly hairless with few if any marginal teeth.

American snowbell is a host plant for promethea moth (Callosamia promethea).

Genus name comes from the classical Greek name derived from a Semitic name for these resin producing plants.

Specific epithet is in reference to the U.S. habitat for American snowbell.

Styrax americanus - Plant Finder (missouribotanicalgarden.org)

 

 

 

 

 

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