Pieris phillyreifolia

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Family:ERICACEAE
Species:Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
Common Name:Climbing Fetterbush; Vine Wicky
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Vine
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:PIPH
Plant Notes:Climbing Fetterbush is a native evergreen shrub or vine in the Azalea family (Ericaceae). It is native to the southern-most tier of counties in Alabama. Climbing Fetterbush can be found in swamps, on creek banks, and in wet depressions. It is an evergreen that forms either erect to sprawling shrubs up to 3 feet in height or (more commonly) a vine climbing to 30 feet. The vine consists of flattened rhizomes that grow within the bark of Pond Cypress or Atlantic White Cedar with branches emerging at intervals along the trunk of the tree. The young stems are hairy and glandular, with older stems having reddish or gray bark that sheds in strips. Leaves are alternate, evergreen, petiolate, ovate to elliptic in outline, toothed (especially near the apex) or nearly entire, with revolute margins. Flowers are produced in axillary racemes near the apex of the stem. Individual flowers are urceolate (urn shaped), white to pinkish in color, with a long style that is sunken into the ovary apex. The fruit is a capsule. Climbing Fetterbush is listed as a S2 species in Alabama (typically 6 to 20 occurrences, few remaining individuals, or factors demonstrably making it very vulnerable in the state) and globally as a G3 species (imperiled globally because of rarity (6 - 20 occurrences) or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors). Climbing Fetterbush is available from some nurseries that specialize in native plants. It requires a moist, acidic soil with abundant organic matter.—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, FACW+ (NWI), S2 (State Rank), G3 (Global Rank)
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyERICACEAE - Heath family
Genus Pieris
Species Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC. - Climbing Fetterbush; Vine Wicky

Citation

Citation Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle, Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 7(2): 599. 1839.
Basionym: Andromeda phillyreifolia Hook. 1837.
Type: USA: FLORIDA: Franklin Co.: Apalachicola, s.d., Drummond 27 (holotype: E; isotypes: E, GH?).

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Ampelothamnus phillyreifolius Ampelothamnus phyllyreifolius (Hooker) Small, Shrubs Florida 96, 133. 1913.Andromeda phyllyreifolia Hooker 1837. 
Andromeda croomia Andromeda croomia Torrey ex A. W. Wood, Class-Book Bot., ed. 1861. 487. 1861. FLORIDA: Gadsden Co.: Quincy, s.d., Wood s.n. (holotype: NY).
Andromeda phyllyreifolia Andromeda phyllyreifolia Hooker, Icon. Pl. 2: t. 122. 1837. FLORIDA: Franklin Co.: Apalachicola, s.d., Drummond 27 (holotype: E; isotypes: E, GH?).

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Baldwin, Covington, Geneva, Houston, Mobile

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1993 - 1993

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
ALNHS00000349 Houston 01 Jun 1993 MacDonald, J.R.
6169		 ALNHS
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
TROY000050145 Covington 26 Nov 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
29157		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
JSU121958 Baldwin 14 Mar 1994 Ballard, J. Mark
3471		 JSU
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
JSU121959 Houston 26 Jun 1993 MacDonald, John R.
6343		 JSU
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
UNA00047485 Houston 01 Jun 1993 MacDonald, John R.
6169		 UNA
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
TROY000004397 Houston 01 Jun 1993 MacDonald, John R.
6169		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
UWAL0039334 Houston 18 Aug 2016 Diamond, Alvin R.
27633		 UWAL
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
AUA_ACC_69368 Covington 6 Mar 2009 Hansen, Curtis J.
3637		 AUA
Pieris Phillyreifolia (Hook.) Dc.
UNA00046129 Houston 26 Jun 1993 MacDonald, John R.
6343		 UNA
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
TROY000004396 Houston 26 Jun 1993 MacDonald, John R.
6343		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
UNA00013356 Mobile _ Feb _ Mohr, Charles
s.n.		 UNA
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
TROY000004394 Baldwin 21 May 2007 Miller, Ron
s.n.		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
AUA_ACC_59903 Covington 13 Sep 1995 Sorrie, Bruce A.
8598		 AUA
Pieris Phillyreifolia (Hook.) Dc.
ALNHS00004475 Houston 01 Nov 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2725		 ALNHS
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
UWAL0018953 Geneva 29 Mar 1986 Kral, Robert
73189		 UWAL
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC
UNA00045811 Houston 01 Jun 1993 MacDonald, John R.
6169		 UNA
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
TROY000044364 Houston 22 Nov 2016 Diamond, Alvin R.
27728		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
UWAL0049957 Covington 26 Nov 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
29157		 UWAL
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
UWAL0043478 Baldwin 27 Feb 2000 Larsen, Harry S.
548		 UWAL
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
TROY000043916 Houston 18 Aug 2016 Diamond, Alvin R.
27633		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
TROY000004395 Covington 20 Feb 1982 McGinty, Douglas T.
s.n.		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A.P. de Candolle
TROY000049401 Covington 01 Jan 2020 Diamond, Alvin R.
29170		 TROY
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hooker) A. P. de Candolle
UWAL0007517 Covington 06 Mar 2009 Hansen, Curtis J.
3637		 UWAL
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
UNA00013353 Mobile 26 Mar 1983 Eylar, M.A.
278		 UNA
Pieris phillyreifolia (Hook.) DC.
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