Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Andromeda canescens Small, sp. nov
?Andromeda Polifolia latifolia Lodd. Bot. Cab. pi. 546. 182K
A shrub similar to A . Polifolia in habit ; leaf-blades usually relatively narrower and more revolute, mostly 2-5 cm. long, acute, bright-green above, closely fine-canescent beneath; flowers in nodding rather dense clusters on curved branchlets ; pedicels short, mostly less than 1 cm. long, stout, ciurved; calyx 3-4 mm. wide, the lobes usually triangidar, acute, usually whitish and spreading; corolla pink or pinkish, 4r-6 mm. long; capsules spheroidal, in dense
clusters.
Type collected at Chilson Lake, New York, August 30, 1900, N. L. &" E. G. Brition (herb. N.
Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Newfoundland and Labrador to Manitoba, New Jersey, Indiana, and Minnesota.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
