Plant Details
Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana
Northern Sweet Bay, Sweetbay Magnolia, Swampbay, Swamp Magnolia, Sweet Magnolia
Scientific Name: |
Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana |
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Common Name: |
Northern Sweet Bay, Sweetbay Magnolia, Swampbay, Swamp Magnolia, Sweet Magnolia |
Plant Family |
Magnoliaceae (Magnolia Family) |
Native/Alien: |
NC Native |
Type: |
Tree |
Bloom Color(s): |
white |
Size in Feet: |
60 |
Bloom Time: |
April - May - June - July |
Bloom Area: |
Coast, Piedmont |
Habitat Description: |
Pocosins, bay forests, and swamps in the Coastal Plain, streamhead pocosins, swamps, and sandhill seeps in the Sandhills, bogs and peaty swamps in the Piedmont (Weakley 2015). Rare in the NC Piedmont, common in the Coastal Plain. |
State Rank: |
No NC Rank Listed (*) |
Global Rank: |
No Global Rank listed (*) |
State Status: |
No NC Status Listed, W6: Watch List: Regionally Rare (*) |
Federal Status: |
No U.S. Status Listed (*) |
Notes: |
"This attractive, native ornamental is popular for its fragrant flowers borne over a long period, showy conelike fruit, handsome foliage of contrasting colors, and smooth bark." Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center |
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Flower Looking like a smaller version of Magnolia grandiflora, Sweet Bay flowers are intensely fragrant.
Halyburton Park, Wilmington, May 9, 2013 |
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Developing fruit
Jack Spruill, June, 2009, Hampstead |
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Trunk showing pale, smooth bark If you press the corky bark with your fingernail, it will depress and then return to its original shape.
Paynter, Wilmington, 2011 |
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Fruit (follicetum) with seeds
Jorge Vigueras, 2010 |
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Links: |
USDA PLANTS Database Record |
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