Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Leatherleaf Viburnum - Viburnum rhytidophyllum   Hemsley
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DistributionSpecimens have been gathered from 9 counties in the Piedmont and Mountains, but only one of them was of "naturalized" plants -- seedlings beneath shrubs on the campus of Western Carolina University, 1976. The rest were all cultivated/planted/persistent shrubs: Alleghany, Durham, Forsyth, Henderson, Mecklenburg, Orange, Randolph, Wake. Sadly, there is a population in a natural area on the Pfeiffer University campus in Stanly County, photographed in 2022.

Native of China.
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IdentificationEasy to ID, due to the elongate, narrowly elliptic leaves which are thick-textured, with rugose veining, and densely gray or whitish tomentose beneath.
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Lenny LampelStanly County; 6 June 2022 StanlyPhoto_non_natural
Lenny LampelStanly County; 6 June 2022 StanlyPhoto_non_natural
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