Plants by Genus Species
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Family
Nyssaceae
Genus Species
Nyssa sylvatica
Common Name
Blackgum
Habit
Tree
Link to Image of Plant
http://thekeep.eiu.edu/whiteside_plantnames/37/
Abstract
Nyssa sylvatica has a native range from Texas, north into Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and east throughout the rest of the United States, including Ontario in Canada (USDA 2011).
Recommended Citation
Coons, Janice; Coutant, Nancy; and Whiteside, Wesley, "Nyssa sylvatica" (2011). Plants by Genus Species. 17.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/whiteside_species/17
Comments
From where or whom obtained and when: The largest of the four Nyssa sylvatica trees in the driveway island at Whiteside Garden came from Forest Keeling Nursery in Missouri, originally offered to Dr. Whiteside in a five gallon tin can in the summer of 1967. Another one came from what was Wandell’s Nursery in Urbana, Illinois, as a small plastic potted plant in the early 1970’s. The other two in the driveway island were collected in the wild, locally from Coles and Clark Counties of Illinois around 1972. A seedling came up around 1990 at the base of a Serbian spruce and has developed into a full tree where the spruce has since been lost.