| Zenobia is an uncommon small to medium-sized shrub of pocosins and other moist areas in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. The leaves and stems may be quite glaucous (covered with a whitish waxy bloom). The leaves have crenate margins, unlike other simliar ericaceous shrubs such as Staggerbush (Lyonia mariana). Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.
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| The cup-shaped flowers, which appear in late spring, are very fragrant, giving it the common name Honeycups. Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.
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| Zenobia is a monotypic genus endemic to the Coastal Plain of the southeastern US from Virginia to Georgia -- there are no other species of Zenobia. Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.
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| Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.
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| Plants may be green instead of glaucous. This plant was near the very glaucous one photographed above, but in a shadier spot. Robeson Co., NC 5/29/08.
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| Leaf detail. Robeson Co., NC 10/4/2009.
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| Robeson Co., NC 10/4/2009.
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| Robeson Co., NC 10/4/2009.
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| The fruit capsules are oblate — spherical but flattened at the ends, broadest around the middle. Robeson Co., NC 10/4/2009.
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| Robeson Co., NC 10/4/2009.
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| Scotland Co., NC 11/1/08.
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