MALVACEAE - - Mallow Family

Tilia americana Linnaeus — Northern Basswood

Habitat:

Rich coves, rocky slopes, metabasalt boulderfields, rich north-facing river bluffs, calcareous Coastal Plain ravines.

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

We will not be providing either a nationwide range map or a Georgia range map for Tilia. BONAP and UGA Herbarium only recognize Tilia americana and do NOT recognize all the species, varieties, or sub-species that are currently recognized by leading botanists. Therefore, their one range map which is labeled T. americana is polluted by including the two varieties listed below. Weakley (2015) currently recognizes T. americana var. americana, T. americana var. heterophylla, and T. americana var. caroliniana. I personally prefer to recognize these three taxa on the species level. In my opinion T. americana is either not found in GA or is confined to the mountains of extreme north Georgia. T. heterophylla is found in north and central (Piedmont) GA and is the common Basswood in nortwest Georgia. T. caroliniana is confined to the Coastal Plain in GA.

Range from Weakley:

NB and MB south to e. VA, w. NC, and OK. In VA, var. americana occurs throughout the northern half of the state, with scattered populations southward in the mountains.