Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pieris floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. Gen. PL 2: 588
1876.
Andromeda floribunda Pursh; Sims, Bot. Mag. -pi. 1566. 1813. Leucothoe floribunda D. Don, Bdinb. New Phil. Jour. 17: 159. 1834. Zenobia floribunda DC. Prodr. 7: 598. 1839. Portuna floribunda Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 268. 1843. Andromeda montana Buckl. Am. Jour. Sci. 45: 172. 1843.
A shrub 3-18 dm. tall, with strigose or somewhat bristly twigs and erect often gregarious stems and branches; leaf-blades leathery, oblong, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, 2-8 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate, serrulate, bristly ciliate, obtuse or subcordate at the base; petioles 3-10 mm. long, strigose; panicles rather dense, 5-10 cm. long; calyx glabrous, the lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. long, acute; corolla white, pyramidal-urceolate, 4.5-6 mm. long; anthers about 1 mm. long; capsules oblong-globose or ovoid-globose, 5-6 mm. long, somewhat angled.
Type locality: Mountains of Georgia. Distribution: Mountains, Virginia to Georgia.
- 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
