Lyonia mariana
piedmont staggerbush
Ericaceae
Plant Specifics
Form:
shrub
Size:
to 7 ft tall by 3-4 ft wide
Life Span:
long-lived perennial
Flower Color:
white
Fruit Color:
brown
Phenology:
deciduous
Noted For:
Showy Flowers, Fall Color
Landscaping
Recommended Uses:
Can be used as a specimen shrub or in a screen.
Considerations:
Slow growing.
Light:
Full Sun, Part Sun
Moisture Tolerance:
Usually moist, occasional inundation ---- to ---- Somewhat long very dry periods
Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:
Unknown
Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:
Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
Soil or Other Substrate:
Sand
Suitable to Grow In:
8B,9A,9B
Ecology
Wildlife:
Pollinators
Attracts bees.
Native Habitats:
Edges of flatwoods marshes, cypress-hardwood pond margins, bogs, shrub-tree swamps, hydric and low mesic flatwoods, occasionally in well-drained mixed woodlands and sandhill, creek swamps.
