EcoFlora - Itea

Itea
Family: Iteaceae Paul Rothrock	FNA Gleason & Cronquist Resources Elizabeth Fortson Wells, Patrick E. Elvander in Flora of North America (vol. 8) Shrubs without bristles and spines. Leaves: stipules minute, subulate; blade elliptic or obovate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate abaxially, glabrous adaxially, pinnately veined. Inflorescences: bracts subtending pedicels caducous. Flowers: hypanthium cup-shaped; sepals green; petals white; styles connate and grooved at anthesis, distinct in fruit. Capsules 2-locular, longitudinally 2-grooved. x = 11. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Hypanthium small, broadly cupulate; sep 5, small, erect; pet 5, narrowly oblong; stamens 5; filaments pubescent; ovary superior, bilocular, longitudinally 2-grooved, hairy; style grooved; stigma capitate; fr an indurate capsule, at first 2-grooved, tipped with the persistent style, eventually septicidal to the summit of the style; shrubs with chambered pith, superposed axillary buds, pinnately veined, serrulate lvs and slender, terminal racemes of small white fls. 20, e. U.S., e. Asia, w. Malaysia. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora Itea chinensis Map not Available Itea coriacea Map not Available Itea glutinosa Map not Available Itea ilicifolia Map not Available Itea japonica Map not Available Itea kiukiangensis Map not Available Itea macrophylla Map not Available Itea oldhamii Map not Available Itea omeiensis Media not available Map not Available Itea parviflora Media not available Map not Available Itea rhamnoides Media not available Map not Available Itea virginica Map not Available Itea yunnanensis Map not Available