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Buckwheat tree

Cliftonia monophylla

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alabama.January 53, February 57, March 83, April 105, May 74, June 48, July 40, August 38, September 51, October 54, November 43, December 44.
United States2,212
Alabama667
Mississippi313
Georgia203
Louisiana115
South Carolina51
Pennsylvania1
Tennessee1
New Jersey1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Group and habits

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderHeathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Familycyrilla family · Cyrillaceae
GenusCliftonia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Buckwheat tree with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.