Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Frangula caroliniana
Frangula caroliniana (Walter) A. Gray
Carolina Buckthorn, Carolina False Buckthorn, Yellow Buckthorn, Indian Cherry, Yellowwood
Rhamnaceae (Buckthorn Family)
USDA Symbol: FRCA13USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Rhamnus caroliniana
Carolina Buckthorn
Rhamnaceae
Location: Gunsight Mountain Ranch, Tarpley.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In moist understory of Quercus, Ulmus, and Cornus.
Description: Erect tree, 4.5 m tall, crown rounded, twigs red-brown, bark thin, tight, irregularly furrowed. Leaves alternate, petioled (to 15 mm), simple, entire, obovate, rounded at base, acute at apex, to 4x8 cm, shiny dark green above, paler beneath, w/8-10 pairs of distinct lateral veins (orange) parallel to margins. Fruit on short peduncled cymes in axils, globose; seed 2-3, stoney.
County: Bandera
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jul 18, 1992
Specimen number: 475
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0683
Accession Date: Mar 22, 1994
Accession Number: 49
Annotations: (in fruit)