Andromeda polifolia L.

ERICACEAE

- Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Andromeda polifolia L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 393 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Bog rosemary

English name: bog-rosemary

English name: marsh holy-rose

Italian name: Andromeda

Grown habit: Subshrub, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Andromeda polifolia L. ssp. glaucophylla (Link) Hultén
2) Andromeda polifolia L. var. concolor B. Boivin
3) Andromeda polifolia L. var. glaucophylla (Link) DC.
4) Andromeda polifolia L. var. jamesiana (Lepage) B. Boivin
5) Andromeda polifolia L. var. polifolia

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Andromeda
Species:

Page counter: 1778 ( AVG: 221.23 / 219.911 )

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Andromeda polifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Ljubljana Botanical Gardens, Slovenia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Andromeda polifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Andromeda polifolia
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 689.

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Andromeda polifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Andromeda polifolia
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Andromeda polifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Città di Monaco di Baviera, Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg ., Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Andromeda polifolia
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Andromeda polifolia
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Andromeda polifolia
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Andromeda polifolia
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Andromeda polifolia
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Andromeda polifolia
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. - Not copyrighted image

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Andromeda polifolia
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CT, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Andromeda polifolia L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Andromeda polifolia L. var. glaucophylla (Link) DC. [246]
2) Andromeda populifolia Lam. [222]
3) Andropogon arctatus Chapm. [301]
4) Andropogon brachystachyus Chapm. [278]
5) Andropogon divergens (Hack.) Andersson ex Hitchc. [198]
6) Andropogon fragilis R. Br. [254]
7) Andropogon gerardii Vitman var. chrysocomus (Nash) Fernald [174]
8) Andropogon glomeratus (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. scabriglumis C.S. Campbell [281]
9) Andropogon hirtus L. [165]
10) Andropogon ternarius Michx. [624]

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