Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Andromeda polifolia L. |
Synonyms | Andromeda americana DC. |
Andromeda grandiflora Steud. | |
Andromeda oleifolia Steud. | |
Habitat | bogs, marshes |
Altitude | 0-1500m |
Description | leaves narrowly eliptic, 15-40mm long, entire, margins revolute, abaxially grey, flowers 5-8mm long, capsule glabrous, 4-6mm wide |
Size | 5-80cm |
Color | pink, white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | - |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | very moist to boggy, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, sandy soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Denmark , Finland , Great Britain , Ireland , Norway , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Netherlands , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (France ) Southeastern Europe (Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Belarus , Baltic States , Central European Russia , East European Russia , North European Russia , South European Russia , Northwest European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) China (Manchuria ) Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , Newfoundland , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Idaho , Washington) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ERICACEAE
polifolia jamesiana (Lepage) B.Boivin, Naturaliste Canad. 93: 432 (1966)
polifolia latifolia Aiton, Hort. Kew. [W.Aiton] 2: 68 (1789)
polifolia pumila V.M.Vinogr., Arktichesk. Fl. SSSR 8: 134 (1980)
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