 New Hanover Cooperative Extension Al Hight, Director |
Crapemyrtle
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According to The Trees of North America, Alan Mitchell and David Moore ©1987
The Crapemyrtle is in the Loosestrife Family, Lythraceae and comes from China and Korea. It is an upright, bushy little tree on several stems, smoothly ribbed with pretty bark, pin and gray, flecked green and with bald pink areas. The leaves are opposite, alternate or in threes. It has a long season bearing flowers which are as often white, pink or scarlet in selected forms grown more in the far south, as the normal purplish red.
Also,
"A glabrous, deciduous shrub to 6 m; the bark is characteristically smooth, reddish-brown. Leaves are sessile to short-petioled, elliptic or oblong, simple, opposite(sometimes the upper ones alternate), entire, pinnately veined, pubescent on veins beneath, margins entire. Flowers are perfect, pink, white or purple, in panicles. Fruits are a woody, oblong, dehiscent capsule."
Source: Richmond.Edu
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| Kingdom | Plantae – vegetal, plants |
| Subkingdom | Viridaeplantae – green plants |
| Infrakingdom | Streptophyta – land plants |
| Division | Tracheophyta – vascular plants, tracheophytes |
| Subdivision | Spermatophytina – spermatophytes, seed plants |
| Infradivision | Angiospermae – flowering plants, angiosperms |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Superorder | Rosanae |
| Order | Myrtales |
| Family | Lythraceae – loosestrife |
| Genus | Lagerstroemia L. |
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| Species | Lagerstroemia indica L. – crapemyrtle |
| Species | Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers. – pride of India |
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| Lagerstroemia L., Taxonomic Serial No.: 27109 | |
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Verification Statement
 I believe your identifications are correct. Not sure of the specific variety of crape myrtle. Could be 'Tuscarora'. Alan Hight  |
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