CALLICARPA AMERICANA

Scientific Name: Callicarpa americana L.

Common Name: French Mulberry or Beauty-Berry.

Family: VERBENACEAE

Shrubs 1-2.5 m tall. Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, stellate pubescent beneath, 7-15 cm long, 3-8 cm wide, crenate to serrate, base widely cunate or rounded; petioles 1.5-3.5 cm long, scrufy stellate like the twigs. Cymes shorter than the subtending petioles; Calyx shallowly 5-toothed, petals 5, united ca. 1/2-2/3 their length, lavender to pinkish, stamens 4 and exserted, stigma slightly 2-lobed, ovary superior, peduncles 1-5 mm long. Drupe 3-5 mm long; pyrenes 2.3 mm long. (n=18) June-July; August-October. Sandy or rocky woodlands, usually moist; throughout North Carolina and coastal plain of N.C., infreq. in Piedmont of N.C., rare in mountains. [Va., Ga., Fla., Ala., Miss., Tenn.]
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