Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Lamiaceae | Callicarpa americana | Beautyberry, American Beautyberry, French-mulberry, Filigrana | Hammocks, other forests (especially with sandy or rocky soils), maritime forests (the main habitat northward), pine flatwoods, disturbed areas. | MD and AR south to s. FL, TX; West Indies. Reported as native for Lyon County, KY (Brock 2020). | ![]() |
Lamiaceae | Callicarpa dichotoma | Chinese Beautyberry | Roadsides, powerline rights-of-way, woodland edges, suburban woodlands, bogs, bottomlands. | Native of Asia. This species is beginning to spread more rapidly in the Southeast. | ![]() |
Lamiaceae | Callicarpa japonica | Japanese Beautyberry | Suburban woodlands. | Native of e. Asia. Reported for Durham County, NC by Moldenke (1980); corroborated by specimens from Orange County, NC (Giencke, pers. comm., 2005). See Atha et al. (2019b) for a report from n. NJ. | ![]() |