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Callicarpa americana Verbenaceae (Vervain) Family   Beauty Berry is also known as French Mulberry and Turkey Berry. Plants are herbs that become shrubs. Preferred habitat is roadsides, woods and disturbed areas. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region. Leaves are opposite or nearly so; consisting of one part; stalked, egg-shaped to broadly lance-like and forming an angle to the left; tapering and pinched but may also appear lop-sided with one side being less than equal to the other. Margins are toothed and the base is wedge-shaped. Flowers are clustered on slender stalks in the leaf axil; bisexual; divided into two parts, each being the image of the other or nearly symmetrical. Calyx is five-lobed and the corolla is five-parted; funnel shaped; pink to lavender; four stamens. Flowers occur in early summer. Fruit is a berry; maturing August-October.
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