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§1 Plant

Leucothoe fontanesiana (Steud.) Sleumer

vernacular highland doghobble — species · Ericaceae


USDA
LEFO
GBIF
5333354
Rank
species
highland doghobble (Leucothoe fontanesiana)
Platephotograph · Jonathan Schnurr source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Ericaceae Juss.
Genus
Leucothoe
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 100 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 100 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 100 counties across 9 states/territories.

Georgia view state ↗ 21 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 N
New York view state ↗ 4 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 34 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 N
Virginia view state ↗ 5 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LEFO ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5333354 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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