Schisandra glabra(Brickell) Rehder

bay starvine

WFO wfo-0000495118 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Schisandra glabra, photographed by lejones417
fig. a lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-04-17 / obs. 121417063
Schisandra glabra, photographed by Eli Dickerson
fig. b Eli Dickerson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192650882
Schisandra glabra, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146539756
Schisandra glabra, photographed by John Kees
fig. d John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 127619458
Schisandra glabra, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. e Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122239974
Schisandra glabra, photographed by lejones417
fig. f lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121414195
Schisandra glabra, photographed by Eli Dickerson
fig. g Eli Dickerson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192650946
Schisandra glabra, photographed by Briggs Armstrong
fig. h Briggs Armstrong, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89892863

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Schisandra glabra is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaKentuckyLouisianaMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTennessee
Native distribution of Schisandra glabra, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mississippi MSI
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Schisandra coccinea Michx.
  • Stellandria glabra Brickell

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.