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Abelia ×grandiflora
Abelia ×grandiflora (Rovelli ex André) Rehder
abelia, glossy abelia
image by Hardin, J.W.
ID_PLANT: ABGR4
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Abelia ×grandiflora
GENUS: Abelia
FAMILY: CAPRIF - Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle Family)
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USDA PLANTS DATABASE
USDA Symbol: ABGR4
USDA Common Name: Glossy Abelia
Native Status: L48 (I)
Distribution: USA (FL, NC)
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Shrub
WEAKLEY FLORA
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Abelia xgrandiflora
COMMON NAME: Abelia
SYNONYMY: [= K, WH3; = Linnaea ×grandiflora (André) Christenhusz - Z]
PHENOLOGY:
HABITAT: Suburban thickets; commonly planted in our area; sometimes persistent or rarely weakly naturalizing, the parent species native of China.
COMMENTS: Reported for AL (Diamond & Woods 2009).
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ABOUT FAMILY (Weakley Flora)
Caprifoliaceae A.L. de Jussieu 1789 (Honeysuckle Family)
SUMMARY: As here broadly circumscribed, a family of about 30 genera and 900 species, shrubs, lianas, herbs, nearly cosmopolitan, but mainly north temperate and boreal. Circumscription of the family is controversial. Various segregate families (or reassignments) of taxa traditionally placed in the Caprifoliaceae have been proposed, including the transfer of Sambucus and Viburnum to the Adoxaceae, placement of Diervilla and Weigela in the Diervillaceae (Backlund & Pyck 1998), placement of Abelia and Linnaea in the Linnaeaceae (Backlund & Pyck 1998; Pyck et al. 2002), and retention of Lonicera, Symphoricarpos, and Triosteum in a much more narrowly circumscribed Caprifoliaceae. Alternatively, all these taxa could be included in the Caprifoliaceae, along with Dipsacaceae and Valerianaceae, as a more broadly circumscribed Caprifoliaceae (APG III 2009), a circumscription followed here.
REFERENCE: Backlund & Pyck (1998); Pyck et al. (2002); Ferguson (1966a); Bell (2004); Ferguson (1965).
ABOUT GENUS (Weakley Flora)
Abelia R. Brown, Abelia ()
SUMMARY: A genus of about 30 species, shrubs, primarily of s. and e. Asia.
REFERENCE: Christenhusz (2013)=Z.
HERBARIUM RESOURCES
SERNEC: Find Abelia ×grandiflora in Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available)
UNC SERNEC: Find Abelia ×grandiflora in University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium - Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available)
WEB RESOURCES
USDA: Find Abelia ×grandiflora in USDA Plants
NPIN: Find Abelia ×grandiflora in NPIN Database
FNA: Find Abelia ×grandiflora in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Abelia ×grandiflora
NCBG RECORD
ID IMAGE1: 4918
ID IMAGE2: 0
ID IMAGE3: 4918
Include in WOTAS: 0
Publish to Web: 1
Last Modified: 2017-01-10
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