Monographs Details:
Authority:
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.
Family:
Ericaceae
Ericaceae
Description:
Species Description - A rigid branching shrub 3-12 dm. tall, its twigs and foliage more or less pubescent and sticky with a resinous secretion when young, leaves firm, the blades elliptic, oval or oblong, sometimes broadest above the middle, firm, obtuse or apiculate, entire, ciliolate, short petioled; flowers in lateral drooping racemes; pedicels 2-8 mm. long, usually with two narrow bracts; calyx about 2 mm. broad, its 5 segments ovate, obtuse, about as long as the tube; corolla obconic, red or reddish-green, 5-6 mm. long, more or less constricted near the apex, the segments ovate, spreading or recurved, revolute, obtuse; filaments winged, pubescent, shorter than the anthers, each cavity of which is prolonged into a tube; drupes globose, 6-10 mm. in diameter, black or rarely white, sweet.
Species Description - A rigid branching shrub 3-12 dm. tall, its twigs and foliage more or less pubescent and sticky with a resinous secretion when young, leaves firm, the blades elliptic, oval or oblong, sometimes broadest above the middle, firm, obtuse or apiculate, entire, ciliolate, short petioled; flowers in lateral drooping racemes; pedicels 2-8 mm. long, usually with two narrow bracts; calyx about 2 mm. broad, its 5 segments ovate, obtuse, about as long as the tube; corolla obconic, red or reddish-green, 5-6 mm. long, more or less constricted near the apex, the segments ovate, spreading or recurved, revolute, obtuse; filaments winged, pubescent, shorter than the anthers, each cavity of which is prolonged into a tube; drupes globose, 6-10 mm. in diameter, black or rarely white, sweet.
Distribution:
Newfoundland and Labrador Canada North America| Saskatchewan Canada North America| Georgia United States of America North America|
Newfoundland and Labrador Canada North America| Saskatchewan Canada North America| Georgia United States of America North America|