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Oxydendrum arboreum - (image 1 of 4)

Taxonomy

Family: Ericaceae

Habitat

Woods. Acid, moist, well-drained, gravelly soils above the banks of streams. Full sun or part shade.

Associates

 Distribution

PA to southern IN, south FL to LA.

Morphology

Pyramidal tree to 20 m. Branches dropping; stems slender, glabrous or slightly pubescent, olive to bright red. Leaves shiny, dark green above, lighter beneath, alternate, deciduous, oblong, elliptic, or lance-ovate, to 15 cm long, acuminate, entire or serrulate. Flowers fragrant, 5-merous, secund in leafless racemes that form a terminal panicle; calyx deeply parted, the lobes imbricate, spreading at anthesis; corolla white, tubular, with short lobed spreading or recurved; stamens 10; style slender. Fruit a 5-angled capsule.

Notes

Flowers June or July.

Wetland indicator: Facultative Upland

Also called Lily-of-the-Valley Tree. Fall color can be yellow, red, or purple. Hardy to zone 5.

References

Dirr, Michael A. 1998. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses.
5th ed. Champaign, Illinois: Stipes Publishing L.L.C.

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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