Fothergilla parvifolia Kearney. Common name: Kearney's Witch-alder. Habitat: Wet savannas, pocosins, and margins of pocosins, and pitcherplant bogs. Distribution: Inner Coastal Plain (fall-line Sandhills) of SC and inner and outer Coastal Plain of e. GA.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: A diploid species (Haynes et al. 2020).
Synonymy ⓘ: = NS, POWO, Haynes et al (2020); < Fothergilla gardenii L. — FNA3, GW2, K4, RAB, Weaver (1969); >< Fothergilla parvifolia Kearney — S, S13. Basionym: Fothergilla parvifolia Kearney 1903
Links to other floras: < Fothergilla gardenii - FNA3
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 7
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