OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 2 taxa in the family Platanaceae, Sycamore family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: American Sycamore, Planetree

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Platanus occidentalis var. occidentalis   FAMILY: Platanaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Platanus occidentalis   FAMILY: Platanaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Platanus occidentalis 096-01-001   FAMILY: Platanaceae

 

Habitat: Riverbanks and alluvial forests, streambanks, sometimes weedy on rocky roadcuts

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Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: London Planetree

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Platanus ×hispanica   FAMILY: Platanaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Platanus ×hispanica [occidentalis × orientalis]   FAMILY: Platanaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Hybrid of native and non-native

 


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"Common names should be written in lower case unless part of the name is proper and then the first letter of only the proper term is capitalized. For example, sugar maple would be written with lower case letters while Japanese maple would be written with the capital J. This is the accepted method for writing common names in scientific circles and should be familiar to the student. In this text, and many others, common names are written with capital first letters. This was done to set the name off from the rest of the sentence and make it more evident to the reader. Actually in modern horticultural writings the capitalized common name predominates." — Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants