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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Celastraceae	Celastraceae	Bittersweet Family
Celastraceae	Celastrus	Bittersweet
Celastraceae	Celastrus orbiculatus	Oriental Bittersweet	Bottomland and riparian forests, mesic upland forests and bluffs, glade margins, disturbed areas, thickets, roadsides, forests.	Native of Asia. C. orbiculatus is grown for its attractive fruits; it has become a noxious weed in much of our area. The first reports of its occurrence in our region appear to be in the 1960's; it is now much more common in most of our area than its native relative, C. scandens.
Celastraceae	Celastrus paniculatus	Intellect Plant
Celastraceae	Celastrus scandens	American Bittersweet, Waxwork	Dry-mesic to mesic upland forests and woodlands, woodland and thicket margins, bluffs, riparian and bottomland forests, glade margins. Often on rich or somewhat alkaline soils.	QC west to MB and WY, south to w. SC, n. GA, AL, LA, and TX.
Celastraceae	Crossopetalum	Christmas-berry
Celastraceae	Crossopetalum ilicifolium	Holly-leaf Rhacoma, Christmas-berry	Pine rocklands, marl prairies, rockland hammocks; also, rarely and as an apparent waif, in disturbed, acid, peaty soil.	S. peninsular FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola). The NC record (presumably not persistent) was presumably introduced via cattle at an agricultural experiment station near Wenona, Washington County, NC (Hayes 1946).
Celastraceae	Crossopetalum rhacoma	Poison-cherry, Maidenberry	Pinelands, hammocks, coastal strands, coastal berms.	S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Yucatan peninsula of Mexico (CAM, ROO, VER, YUC); n. South America.
Celastraceae	Euonymus	Spindle-tree, Euonymus, Strawberry-bush
Celastraceae	Euonymus alatus	Winged Euonymus, Burning Bush	Suburban woodlands, becoming invasive in parts of our region.	Native of e. Asia. First reported for NC (Jackson Co.) by Pittillo & Brown (1988), now widespread in the state.
Celastraceae	Euonymus americanus	Strawberry-bush, Heart's-a-bustin’ (-with-love)	Mesic to submesic forests.	Se. NY west to s. OH and se. MO, south to n. peninsular FL and TX.
Celastraceae	Euonymus atropurpureus	American Wahoo, Burning Bush, Bleeding Heart, Waahoo	Bottomland forests, riverbanks, mostly on rich alluvial sediments, or on slopes over mafic or calcareous rocks.	NY west to ND, south to Panhandle FL and TX.
Celastraceae	Euonymus europaeus	European Spindle-tree	Suburban woodlands, uncommonly cultivated, rarely naturalized.	Native of Europe.
Celastraceae	Euonymus fortunei	Wintercreeper, Chinese Spindle-tree, Climbing Euonymus	Bottomlands, swamps, upland suburban woodlands.	Native of China.
Celastraceae	Euonymus hamiltonianus	Spindletree	Suburban woodlands, disturbed areas.	Native of Asia.
Celastraceae	Euonymus japonicus	Japanese Spindle-tree	Disturbed areas, especially on barrier islands.	Native of Japan. Especially widely planted on barrier islands and in other maritime situations because of its resistance to salt damage (Brown 1959). Reported for AR (Serviss et al. 2017a; Serviss et al. 2020).
Celastraceae	Euonymus maackii	Winterberry	Cultivated, rarely naturalized.	Native of n. China.
Celastraceae	Euonymus obovatus	Running Strawberry-bush	Cove forests, northern hardwood forests, other mesic forests, especially in boulderfields, where sometimes locally abundant.	W. NY west to s. MI, south to sw. NC, ne. GA, TN, and n. AR.
Celastraceae	Gyminda	False-boxwood
Celastraceae	Gyminda latifolia ssp. latifolia	West Indian False-box	Rockland hammocks, coastal berms.	S. FL; West Indies; e. Mexico (ROO, TAM, VER, YUC).
Celastraceae	Hippocratea
Celastraceae	Hippocratea volubilis	Medicine-vine	Coastal berms, maritime hammocks, rockland hammocks, and strand swamps.	FL peninsula; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Celastraceae	Mortonia
Celastraceae	Mortonia greggii	Afinador, Gregg's Mortonia	Hillsides and ravines.	S. TX and c. Mexico.
Celastraceae	Paxistima	Mountain-lover
Celastraceae	Paxistima canbyi	Cliff-green, Canby's Mountain-lover, Ratstripper	On calcareous bluffs and cliffs (generally near the top of the cliffs or bluffs, rarely far below the crest), mostly on limestone and dolostone, but rarely on greenstone or shale; in NC naturalized at the site of a plant nursery and possibly also native (see discussion below).	The species is a Central Appalachian endemic: sc. PA (Bedford County) (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007), e. WV, w. VA, s. OH, e KY, ne. TN, and w. NC (where unlikely to be native). The only collection definitely known from NC is that from an old nursery site (Hardin 1963). Navaro & Blackwell (1990) note that "the presence of P. canbyi in North Carolina was, however, noticed as long ago as 1883 by Chapman, and P. canbyi is likely native to North Carolina". Small (1933) reports it from "n. N.C.". Casting serious doubt on its native status in NC is the species’ habitat: limestone ravines and bluffs, a very rare habitat in NC.
Celastraceae	Schaefferia
Celastraceae	Schaefferia cuneifolia	Capul, Panalero, Desert-yaupon	Hillsides, canyons, flats, in chaparral.	S. and sw. TX and s. CA south into c. Mexico.
Celastraceae	Schaefferia frutescens	Florida Boxwood, Yellow-boxwood	Rockland hammocks.	S. peninsular FL; West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Celastraceae	Tricerma
Celastraceae	Tricerma phyllanthoides	Gutta-percha, Leatherleaf, Florida Mayten	Coastal hammocks, dunes, upper salt marsh edges.	FL peninsula (on the west coast from Levy County south to s. FL); Bahamas; Cuba; n. to s. Mexico.
Celastraceae	Tricerma texanum	Texas Leatherleaf, Texas Mayten, Mangle Dulce, Gutta-Percha	Shrublands and thickets, commonly with Vachellia and Forestiera, mud flats, salt flats, low ridges, clay mounds, clay dunes, loamy sand, sandy clay, saline clay.	Se. TX to ne. TAM.