BERBERIDACEAE - - Barberry Family

* Nandina domestica Thunberg — Nandina, Sacred-bamboo

* Non-native. Native of China.

Habitat:

Forests and woodlands in suburban areas, commonly planted, increasingly escaping and naturalizing; native of China. Nandina has numerous cultivated forms, and is widely planted in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of our area, especially southward. Leaflet shape varies in cultivated forms from broadly ovate to linear.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].