Neviusia alabamensis
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Neviusia alabamensis is a perrenial ornamental plant
Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...

, which is native to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 where it occurs in several southeastern states. It is one of three species in the genus Neviusia
Neviusia
Neviusia is a genus of ornamental plants, which are native to the United States, containing two extant species and one extinct species known from leaf fossils. This genus is a rare example of a disjunct range occurring in North America...

, the others being the California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 endemic species, Neviusia cliftonii
Neviusia cliftonii
Neviusia cliftonii is a rare species of shrub in the rose family which is known by the common name Shasta snow-wreath. It is endemic to Shasta County, California, where it is known from fewer than 20 occurrences in the mountains around Lake Shasta....

, and the extinct species Neviusia dunthornei
Neviusia dunthornei
Neviusia dunthornei is an extinct species of flowering plant in the Rosaceae family. The species is solely known from the early Eocene, Ypresian stage, Allenby formation Lacustrine deposits near the town of Princeton, British Columbia....

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