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§1 Plant
Morella caroliniensis (Mill.) Small
vernacular southern bayberry — species · Myricaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Myricaceae Rich. ex Kunth
- Genus
- Morella
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 232 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 44–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 7 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 7 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 232 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Calhoun 12013
- Clay 12019
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gulf 12045
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Atkinson 13003
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Brooks 13027
- Camden 13039
- Carroll 13045
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Cherokee 13057
- Clarke 13059
- Clay 13061
- Coffee 13069
- Cook 13075
- Dodge 13091
- Early 13099
- Effingham 13103
- Emanuel 13107
- Glascock 13125
- Glynn 13127
- Hancock 13141
- Harris 13145
- Jackson 13157
- Johnson 13167
- Lanier 13173
- Laurens 13175
- Lowndes 13185
- McIntosh 13191
- Randolph 13243
- Screven 13251
- Talbot 13263
- Tattnall 13267
- Taylor 13269
- Telfair 13271
- Toombs 13279
- Turner 13287
- Upson 13293
- Ware 13299
- Wayne 13305
- Wilcox 13315
Louisiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Carteret 37031
- Catawba 37035
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Franklin 37069
- Gaston 37071
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lincoln 37109
- Martin 37117
- Montgomery 37123
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Wake 37183
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 18 N ▾
- Brunswick 51025
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Greensville 51081
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- King George 51099
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Prince George 51149
- Southampton 51175
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MOCA7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3169005 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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