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 - Tall shrub, sometimes to 5 m, usually not colonial; lvs felty-pubescent beneath; pedicels and cor-tube densely and finely pubescent as well as stipitate-glandular; cor white to more often pink, the tube longer than the lobes, rather abruptly expanded to the limb; stamens ca 3 times as long as the cor-tube; ovary densely strigose, fr sparsely so, not glandular. Moist woods; chiefly on the piedmont and coastal plain; Del. to Fla. and Tex. Apr., early May.
Species Description - Tall shrub, sometimes to 5 m, usually not colonial; lvs felty-pubescent beneath; pedicels and cor-tube densely and finely pubescent as well as stipitate-glandular; cor white to more often pink, the tube longer than the lobes, rather abruptly expanded to the limb; stamens ca 3 times as long as the cor-tube; ovary densely strigose, fr sparsely so, not glandular. Moist woods; chiefly on the piedmont and coastal plain; Del. to Fla. and Tex. Apr., early May.
Common Names:
piedmont azalea
piedmont azalea