Magnolia fraseri

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderMagnoliales
5. FamilyMagnoliaceae

Native toAlabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia

Fraser magnolia is a moderately frequent tree species in a number of forest types; however, its relative density is generally less than 10 percent, regardless of its size or location (3,7,8). For example, it constitutes only 0.3 percent of all trees on the Jefferson National Forest in western Virginia. At elevations greater than 1200 m (3,940 ft) associated species include mountain maple (Acer spicatum), striped maple (A. pensyluanicum), and sugar maple, American beech, American basswood (Tilia americana), Carolina basswood, yellow buckeye, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), and eastern hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) (2,3,4,6,8). Elsewhere, commonly associated species are: sweet birch (Betula lenta), hickories (Carya spp.), American chestnut (Castanea dentata) (as sprouts), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), white ash (Fraxinus americana), Carolina silverbell (Halesia carolina), American holly (Ilex opaca), butternut (Juglans cinerea), black walnut (J. nigra), yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), cucumbertree (Magnolia acuminata), blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica), sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum), black cherry (Prunus serotina), white, scarlet, chestnut, and northern red oaks (Que