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 - Shrub 1–2 m, often colonial, much branched and with ± setose-pubescent young twigs; lvs 3–6 cm, setose-hairy, not glandular, oblanceolate to obovate, acute to rounded and mucronulate; bud-scales broadly rounded; fls spicy-fragrant; pedicels and cor-tube stipitate-glandular and minutely hairy; sep minute; cor white (pink), 2–4 cm wide, the tube 2–3 cm, the lobes 1.5–2 cm; style projecting 1–5(–10) mm beyond the anthers at anthesis, usually puberulent for 1 cm or more at the base. Wet woods and swamps; Me. to O. and Fla. June, July. (Azalea v.)
Species Description - Shrub 1–2 m, often colonial, much branched and with ± setose-pubescent young twigs; lvs 3–6 cm, setose-hairy, not glandular, oblanceolate to obovate, acute to rounded and mucronulate; bud-scales broadly rounded; fls spicy-fragrant; pedicels and cor-tube stipitate-glandular and minutely hairy; sep minute; cor white (pink), 2–4 cm wide, the tube 2–3 cm, the lobes 1.5–2 cm; style projecting 1–5(–10) mm beyond the anthers at anthesis, usually puberulent for 1 cm or more at the base. Wet woods and swamps; Me. to O. and Fla. June, July. (Azalea v.)
Common Names:
swamp azalea
swamp azalea