Hudsonia tomentosa Nutt.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Cistaceae

• Scientific Name

  Hudsonia tomentosa Nutt.

• Description

  Species Description - Lvs lance-ovate or triangular, ± scale-like, 1–3 mm, closely imbricate and appressed to the twigs except on vigorous shoots, densely white-tomentose (less so on vigorous shoots); pedicels to 3 mm; frs cylindric, promptly deciduous; 2n=20. Locally abundant on and about coastal dunes from Me. to N.C., and inland in sandy habitats from Lab. and N.E. to W.Va., w. to Wis., Minn., Man., and s. Mack. May–July. A hybrid with no. 1 [Hudsonia ericoides L.] is H. ×spectabilis Morse. The names H. intermedia and H. tomentosa var. intermedia, sometimes misapplied to the hybrid, are based on specimens of H. tomentosa from the Adirondack Mts.