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§1 Plant

Osmanthus americanus (L.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex A. Gray var. americanus

vernacular devilwood — variety · Oleaceae


USDA
OSAMA
GBIF
3683882
Rank
variety
PlateNo public-domain or CC photograph located.

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
Genus
Osmanthus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 91 counties across 7 states/territories
Legend Native · 91 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 91 counties across 7 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 9 N
Georgia view state ↗ 34 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 22 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/OSAMA ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3683882 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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