PLANTS Profile for Clethra acuminata (mountain sweetpepperbush)

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PLANTS Profile

Clethra acuminata Michx.
mountain sweetpepperbush

Symbol:

CLAC3

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Clethraceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Tree
Shrub

Native Status:

L48

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Clethra acuminata Michx.

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Distribution:
Clethra acuminata Michx.


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USA (AL, GA, KY, NC, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Related Taxa:
Clethra acuminata Michx.

View 1 genera in Clethraceae, 2 species in Clethra

Classification:
Clethra acuminata Michx.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Dilleniidae
Order	Ericales
Family	Clethraceae – Clethra family
Genus	Clethra L. – sweetpepperbush
Species	Clethra acuminata Michx. – mountain sweetpepperbush

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Clethra acuminata Michx.

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Pennsylvania:
mountain pepper-bush		Endangered

More Accounts and Images:
Clethra acuminata Michx.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 23457.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

Time Generated: 05/24/2013 12:13 PM CDT