Kolkwitzia amabilis Graebner
Detail
- Family
- Caprifoliaceae
- Botanical Name
- Kolkwitzia amabilis Graebner
- Common Name
- Beautybush
- Synonym(s)
- Linnaea amabilis (Graebner) Christenhusz
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Kolkwitzia amabilis Graebner
- Comments
- Kolkwitzia amabilis is an old-fashioned ornamental shrub that is adventive in Virginia. Although sparingly escaped, it has been found in several counties and has also been noted in some numbers on the Kentucky side of Cumberland Mountain near Cumberland Gap. It is clearly quite shade-tolerant and capable of establishing locally in open forests and edge habitats.
Christenhusz (2013; Phytotaxa 125: 25-32) proposed subsuming Kolkwitzia and several other genera in Linnaea. However, two recent molecular studies argue against this. See Landrein et al. 2012, Bot. Jour. of the Linnean Soc. 169: 692-713; and Wang et al. 2015, PLOS ONE | DOI: 10:1371/journal.pone.0116485. - Habitat
- Thin forests, forest edges, fencerows. Adventive in several, scattered counties; it remains to be seen whether this species will become more fully naturalized.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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