Index / Search / Stewartia ovata
§1 Plant
Stewartia ovata (Cav.) Weath.
vernacular mountain 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
· 91 counties across 8 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 91 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Bledsoe 47007
- Blount 47009
- Campbell 47013
- Carter 47019
- Cumberland 47035
- Fentress 47049
- Franklin 47051
- Grainger 47057
- Grundy 47061
- Hamilton 47065
- Jackson 47087
- Knox 47093
- Marion 47115
- Monroe 47123
- Morgan 47129
- Pickett 47137
- Polk 47139
- Putnam 47141
- Rhea 47143
- Roane 47145
- Rutherford 47149
- Scott 47151
- Sequatchie 47153
- Sevier 47155
- Unicoi 47171
- Union 47173
- Van Buren 47175
- White 47185
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/STOV ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5421085 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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