Index / Search / Halesia carolina
§1 Plant
Halesia carolina L.
vernacular Carolina silverbell — species · Styracaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Styracaceae DC. & Spreng.
- Genus
- Halesia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 107 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -10 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.7–7
- Root depth
- 40 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 30 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 1,600
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 107 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Escambia 12033
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Okaloosa 12091
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Bartow 13015
- Bulloch 13031
- Carroll 13045
- Clarke 13059
- Cobb 13067
- Columbia 13073
- Dawson 13085
- DeKalb 13089
- Early 13099
- Effingham 13103
- Elbert 13105
- Fannin 13111
- Floyd 13115
- Forsyth 13117
- Fulton 13121
- Gilmer 13123
- Gwinnett 13135
- Hall 13139
- Haralson 13143
- Harris 13145
- Hart 13147
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Madison 13195
- Morgan 13211
- Murray 13213
- Oconee 13219
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Rabun 13241
- Randolph 13243
- Screven 13251
- Seminole 13253
- Stephens 13257
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Taylor 13269
- Union 13291
- Upson 13293
- Walton 13297
- White 13311
- Wilkes 13317
- Worth 13321
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HACA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5371655 ↗Record version
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