Our goal is to document the flora, fauna, and fungi that make up the community of Wild Meadow Farm.  Whenever possible, we will identify the species that are listed here. If you can ID an unlabeled species, please let us know.

Horse Sugar

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Common name: Horse sugar (Symplocos tinctoria)

Other common names: Common sweetleaf, Sweetleaf, Yellowwood, Wild laurel

Meaning of Latin name: Symplokos: “interconnected”, tinctoria: a plant used for dye or who’s sap can stain

Leaves are sweet and are enjoyed by browsing animals, flowers contain nectar for insects to gather and birds eat the seeds, larval host plant for the Kings hairstreak butterfly.

Bark is used to make a yellow dye

Full horse sugar profile

Vines

  • Carolina jessamin

  • Climbing Boneset

  • Coral honeysuckle

  • Creeping blueberry

  • Cross vine

  • Dew berry

  • Dodder

  • Japanese honeysuckle

  • Morning glory

  • Muscadine grape

  • Partridgeberry

  • Passion vine

  • Peppervine

  • Poison Ivy

  • Rattanvine

  • Smilax

  • Trumpet vine

  • Virginia creeper

  • Wisteria

Trees

  • American holly

  • American olive

  • Bald cypress

  • Black cherry

  • Black gum

  • Black willow

  • Chinquapin

  • Chokeberry

  • Dahoon holly

  • Dogwood

  • Fringetree

  • Oaks

    • Blackjack oak

    • Laurel oak

    • Post oak

    • Sand live oak

    • Southern red oak

    • Swamp chestnut oak

    • Water oak

    • White oak

    • Various hybrids

  • Parsley-leaf Hawthorn

  • Persimmon

  • Pines

    • Long leaf pine

    • Slash pine

    • Loblolly pine

    • Pond pine

  • Red cedar

  • Red maple

  • Redbay

  • Sassafras

  • Southern crabapple

  • Sweet bay magnolia

  • Sweet gum

  • Sycamore

  • Titi

  • Tulip tree

Shrubs

  • Beauty berry

  • Big gall berry

  • Blueberry

  • Chinese privot

  • Elderberry

  • Fetterbush

  • Hearts-a-burstin’

  • Horse sugar

  • Ink berry

  • Sparkleberry

  • Swamp azalea

  • Sweet pepperbush

  • Wax myrtle

  • Winged sumac

  • Bear grass

  • Blazing star

  • Blue mistflower

  • Blue violet

  • Calico aster

  • Camphor weed

  • Cardinal flower

  • Carolina geranium

  • Carolina redroot

  • Cholic root

  • Dandelion

  • Dingleberry

  • Dog fennel

  • Dog hobble

  • Elephant’s foot

  • Erect blackberry

  • False foxglove

  • Ferns

  • Goldenrods

  • Green arrow alum

  • Horsenettle

  • Horseweed

  • Ironweed

  • Joe Pie weed

  • Le Conte’s thistle

  • Lizard tail

  • Meadow beauty (2)

  • Muck sunflower

  • Mullein

  • Orchids

    • Yellow fringed orchid

    • Spiranthes

    • Scented lady's tresses

    • Downey rattlesnake plantain

    • Cranefly orchid

  • Pink ladies evening primrose

  • Pepperweed

  • Plantain

  • Pokeweed

  • Roundleaf boneset

  • Shepherd’s purse

  • Spiderwort

  • Spoon flower

  • Spotted horsemint

  • St. Andrew’s cross

  • Sundews

  • Sundrop evening primrose

  • Switchcane

  • Tall ragwort

  • Tickseed coreopsis

  • White violet

  • Wild ginger

  • Yellow star

  • Zigzag bladderwort

Herbaceous plants

Other

  • Fern moss

  • Foxtail clubmoss

  • Liverwort

  • Mistletoe

  • Reindeer lichen

  • Spanish moss