| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symplocaceae | Symplocos paniculata | Sapphire-berry, Asiatic Sweetleaf | Suburban woodlands, spreading from horticultural use. | Native of e. Asia. Spreading from plantings in the northern part of our region, such as Delaware, District of Columbia (Whittemore 2003), and others. |  (c) Conboy, Andrew - CC-BY |
| Symplocaceae | Symplocos tinctoria | Sweetleaf, Horse-sugar, Dyebush, Yellowwood, "Wild Laurel" | Moist bottomland forests, pocosin edges, mesic forests, ridgetop pine and oak/pine forests, pine flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhills. | Delaware south to n. Florida and west to e. Texas and se. Oklahoma. The range in our area is discontinuous and interesting, the species is rather abundant in the Coastal Plain throughout our area, and in the Mountains of North Carolina and South Carolina (absent from the Virginia mountains!), but present in the Piedmont only near its borders with the other provinces and in scattered sites in the central Piedmont. Plants in the part of the distribution in the Southern Appalachians have been described as var. ashei Harbison on the basis of hairier leaves, stems, and fruits; the correlation of morphology and biogeography is suggestive of varietal distinction reflecting past history of the species in our area (see Hardin 1966). |  (c) Bradley, Keith |