Index / Search / Halesia diptera
§1 Plant
Halesia diptera Ellis
vernacular two-wing silverbell — species · Styracaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Styracaceae DC. & Spreng.
- Genus
- Halesia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 140 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 10 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 247 min.
- Precipitation
- 33–68 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 15 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,500
- Propagation
- cuttings
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 140 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Baker 13007
- Chatham 13051
- Crawford 13079
- Decatur 13087
- Dodge 13091
- Early 13099
- Grady 13131
- Harris 13145
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jeff Davis 13161
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Lee 13177
- Montgomery 13209
- Sumter 13261
- Talbot 13263
- Taliaferro 13265
- Taylor 13269
- Thomas 13275
- Upson 13293
- Wayne 13305
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Adams 28001
- Amite 28005
- Choctaw 28019
- Claiborne 28021
- Copiah 28029
- Covington 28031
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- George 28039
- Greene 28041
- Harrison 28047
- Hinds 28049
- Issaquena 28055
- Jackson 28059
- Jefferson 28063
- Jones 28067
- Lamar 28073
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lawrence 28077
- Leake 28079
- Lincoln 28085
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Newton 28101
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Pike 28113
- Scott 28123
- Simpson 28127
- Smith 28129
- Stone 28131
- Walthall 28147
- Warren 28149
- Washington 28151
- Wayne 28153
- Wilkinson 28157
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HADI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7433677 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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