PLANTS Profile for Sideroxylon lycioides (buckthorn bully)

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Sideroxylon lycioides L.
buckthorn bully

Symbol:

SILY

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Sapotaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Tree
Shrub

Native Status:

L48

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Bumelia lycioides

Robert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA SCS. 1991. Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth. Courtesy of USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute. Usage Requirements.

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Sideroxylon lycioides L.

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Synonyms:
Sideroxylon lycioides L.

	BUCA5	Bumelia cassinifolia Small
	BULY	Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers.
	BULYE	Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers. var. ellipsoidalis R.B. Clark
	BULYV	Bumelia lycioides (L.) Pers. var. virginiana Fernald
	BUSM	Bumelia smallii R.B. Clark

Distribution:
Sideroxylon lycioides L.


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USA (AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV)

Related Taxa:
Sideroxylon lycioides L.

View 14 genera in Sapotaceae, 12 species in Sideroxylon

Classification:
Sideroxylon lycioides L.

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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	Ebenales
Family	Sapotaceae – Sapodilla family
Genus	Sideroxylon L. – bully
Species	Sideroxylon lycioides L. – buckthorn bully

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Sideroxylon lycioides L.

This plant and synonym italicized and indented below are 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.

Florida:
gopherwood buckthorn		Endangered
Indiana:
Bumelia lycioides
buckthorn		Endangered

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Sideroxylon lycioides L.

Bumelia lycioides:

Nat. Ind.

Reg. 1

Reg. 2

Reg. 3

Reg. 4

Reg. 5

Reg. 6

Reg. 7

Reg. 8

Reg. 9

Reg. 0

Reg. A

Reg. C

Reg. H

FAC,FACW

FACW

FAC

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Sideroxylon lycioides L.

View species account and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

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

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 505220.

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

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