Index / Search / Cliftonia monophylla
§1 Plant
Cliftonia monophylla (Lam.) Britton ex Sarg.
vernacular buckwheat tree — species · Cyrillaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Cyrillaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Cliftonia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 84 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 84 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Atkinson 13003
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Candler 13043
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clay 13061
- Clinch 13065
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Cook 13075
- Decatur 13087
- Early 13099
- Effingham 13103
- Emanuel 13107
- Evans 13109
- Grady 13131
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jefferson 13163
- Lanier 13173
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- Pierce 13229
- Randolph 13243
- Screven 13251
- Tattnall 13267
- Telfair 13271
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Treutlen 13283
- Turner 13287
- Ware 13299
- Wayne 13305
- Wheeler 13309
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CLMO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5333450 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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