North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Santalaceae > Buckleya (piratebush)
	Piratebush (Buckleya distichophylla) Haywood Co., NC 13 May 2005 A rare plant on the NC Endangered Species list and endemic to the southern Appalachians, Piratebush is known in NC from a handful of counties in the mountains.
	Piratebush (Buckleya distichophylla) Haywood Co., NC 13 May 2005
	Piratebush (Buckleya distichophylla) Haywood Co., NC 13 May 2005 It grows on dry or rocky wooded slopes and its roots are parasitic on the roots of other trees.

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.