Lagerstroemia indica L.

Locations ofLagerstroemia indica L. in Virginia

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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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