Index / Search / Lyonia lucida
§1 Plant
Lyonia lucida (Lam.) K. Koch
vernacular fetterbush lyonia — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Lyonia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 141 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 3.5–6
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 6.6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 141 counties across 4 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 62 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Glades 12043
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Okeechobee 12093
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 56 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Atkinson 13003
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Bartow 13015
- Berrien 13019
- Brooks 13027
- Bryan 13029
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Candler 13043
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clay 13061
- Clinch 13065
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Crisp 13081
- Decatur 13087
- Dodge 13091
- Early 13099
- Echols 13101
- Emanuel 13107
- Evans 13109
- Glynn 13127
- Grady 13131
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Laurens 13175
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- Madison 13195
- McDuffie 13189
- McIntosh 13191
- Screven 13251
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Taylor 13269
- Telfair 13271
- Thomas 13275
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Treutlen 13283
- Turner 13287
- Ware 13299
- Wayne 13305
- Worth 13321
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LYLU3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5333386 ↗Record version
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