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Climbing Heath Pieris phyllyreifolia (Hook.) Small.

This evergreen, ericaceous shrub grows knee-high, spreading by subterranean runners. It can also climb trunks of pond-cypress, the stem growing beneath the outer bark of the tree. It grows in ponds and depressions on the coasal plain from South Carolina to Alabama, most abundantly in the Okefenokee Swamp. Two populations were found in wetlands of Wheeler County.