Ledum

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Ericaceae

• Scientific Name

  Ledum Ruppius ex L.

• Description

  Genus Description - Fls 5-merous; cal-lobes very short; pet 5, separate, spreading; stamens 5–10; filaments slender; anthers short, dorsifixed, with 2 terminal pores; ovary puberulent, 5- locular; style elongate; capsule septicidal; erect or diffuse, freely branched shrubs with thick, evergreen, alternate, sessile or subsessile lvs and long-pedicellate fls in a crowded (sometimes umbelliform) terminal corymb. 5, boreal.