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Agarista populifolia

Florida hobblebush, pipe-plant, pipe-stem wood
Habit Plants to 7 m. Stems terete, with chambered pith.
Leaf

blades 2.6–9(–11.2) × 0.9–4(–5) cm, base narrowly cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate, surfaces sometimes stipitate-glandular-hairy, hairy on midvein adaxially.
Flowers

calyx lobes 0.9–2 × 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla 6–9.5 × 3–5 mm, glabrous;

filaments 4–5.5 mm;

style impressed into ovary apex.
Capsules

3–4 × 4.5–6.5 mm, placentae subapical.
Seeds

brown, 1.4–2 mm.
2n

= 24.

Agarista populifolia
Phenology Flowering early spring–spring.
Habitat Acid swamps to moist broadleaved forests, especially along streams, in ravines, or near springs
Elevation 0-50 m (0-200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA; SC
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Discussion

Agarista populifolia is occasionally used as an ornamental; it is the northernmost species of the genus, and is closely related to A. sleumeri Judd of Mexico. Agarista populifolia is rather variable in glandular indumentum and in the size and margins of the leaves. The plants are apparently very rare in Georgia, and the two known collections from that state lack exact localities; W. Bartram (1791) reported it growing along Saint Mary’s River.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 499.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Agarista
Synonyms Andromeda populifolia, Leucothoë acuminata, Leucothoë populifolia
Name authority (Lamarck) Judd: J. Arnold Arbor. 60: 495. 1979 ,
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