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§1 Plant

Halesia tetraptera Ellis

vernacular mountain silverbell — species · Styracaceae


USDA
HATE3
GBIF
5371652
Rank
species
mountain silverbell (Halesia tetraptera)
Platephotograph · dogbowlbookpileCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
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

· 106 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 106 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 106 counties across 13 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 14 N
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 5 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 31 N
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 9 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 23 N
Virginia view state ↗ 6 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/HATE3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5371652 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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