Lagerstroemia indica L.
Detail
- Family
- Lythraceae
- Botanical Name
- Lagerstroemia indica L.
- Common Name
- Crepe-myrtle
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- in Taxa Not Treated: Waifs
- Comments
- Commonly cultivated landscape tree. The map is incomplete because, apparently, only a few collections from scattered escapes throughout se. VA have been made. Vouchers are needed.
- Habitat
- First collected as an escape in the 1930's by Fernald and Long: "spreading in a bushy clearing at the North Carolina line, near Fontaine Creek, southwest of Haley's Bridge, no. 9602." More recently, observed to be weakly escaped/spreading in fencerow thickets, old fields, and scrubby forest borders of the southeastern counties and the Eastern Shore, and capable of spontaneous reproduction well into the Piedmont. Only time will tell if this species will become more fully naturalized.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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