Here's a plant I photographed last Sunday. It was growing on the slopes of the "shell mound," a 6,000 year old midden composed mainly of oyster shells piled up by paleo-Indians. My efforts to identify this small tree have so far come to nothing. It is fairly distinctive and seems like it should be easy.
I figured it out. This is Soapberry (Sapindus saponaria). Several accounts mention its occurrence on calcareous soils and even mention shell mounds.
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