North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Staphyleaceae > Staphylea (bladdernut)
	American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia) Bottomland forest near Haw River in Chatham Co., NC 7 June 2008 Found throughout North Carolina, American Bladdernut is fairly common in forested bottomlands. No other NC shrub or small tree has opposite trifoliate compound leaves with serrate leaflets.
	American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia) Bottomland forest near Haw River in Chatham Co., NC 7 June 2008

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.