Monographs Details:
Authority:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Family:
Ericaceae
Ericaceae
Description:
Species Description - Freely branched low shrub 1–3 dm, sometimes depressed and forming loose mats; lvs leathery, evergreen, elliptic, 10–15 mm, densely lepidote, especially beneath; fls few in a terminal, umbel-like cluster, bright purple, campanulate, 1.5 cm wide; stamens 5–10; fr 5 mm; 2n=26, 52. Circumboreal, s. to the higher mts. of N. Engl. and N.Y., and rarely to c. Wis. June.
Species Description - Freely branched low shrub 1–3 dm, sometimes depressed and forming loose mats; lvs leathery, evergreen, elliptic, 10–15 mm, densely lepidote, especially beneath; fls few in a terminal, umbel-like cluster, bright purple, campanulate, 1.5 cm wide; stamens 5–10; fr 5 mm; 2n=26, 52. Circumboreal, s. to the higher mts. of N. Engl. and N.Y., and rarely to c. Wis. June.
Common Names:
Lappland rose-bay
Lappland rose-bay