Index / Search / Stewartia malacodendron
§1 Plant
Stewartia malacodendron L.
vernacular silky camellia — species · Theaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Theaceae Mirb.
- Genus
- Stewartia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 121 counties across 10 states/territories§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 121 counties across 10 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Adams 28001
- Amite 28005
- Copiah 28029
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- George 28039
- Greene 28041
- Harrison 28047
- Jackson 28059
- Jefferson 28063
- Jones 28067
- Lamar 28073
- Lincoln 28085
- Marion 28091
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Rankin 28121
- Simpson 28127
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
- Wilkinson 28157
North Carolina view state ↗ 21 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/STMA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5421087 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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