Oxydendrum

• 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

  Oxydendrum

• Description

  Genus Description - Fls 5-merous; cal deeply parted, the lobes imbricate, spreading or reflexed at anthesis, persistent; cor conic-ovoid, much-constricted above, the tube canescent, the short lobes spreading or recurved; stamens 10, included; filaments flat, tapering, puberulent; anthers linear, opening by short slits above the middle, each of the 2 pollen-sacs prolonged into an erect tube as long as the body; style slender; stigma truncate; capsule oblong- ovoid, 5-angled, loculicidal; tree or tall shrub with alternate, deciduous lvs and numerous white fls secund in several elongate, lfless racemes that form a terminal panicle. Monospecific.

• Common Names

  sourwood