Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ledum groenlandicum Oeder, Fl. Dan. 410; 5. 1777
Ledum latifoUum Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 65. 1789.
Ledum palustre latifoUum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 259. 1803.
Ledum canadense Lodd. Bot. Cab. pi. 1049. 1825.
An erect shrub with loosely pubescent twigs ; leaf -blades oblong, elliptic, or oval, or sometimes apparently narrower on account of the strongly revolute margins, 2-6 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous or nearly so above, felty-tomentose beneath, short-petioled ; pedicels minutely pubescent; calyx-lobes broadly deltoid, acute or acutish; petals oblong or ovate-oblong, 5-8 mm. long; stamens 5-7; filaments mostly glabrous; capsules oblong, 5-6.5 mm. long, usually about twice as long as thick.
Type i^ocality: Greenland.
DisTRrBUTiCN : Greenland, Labrador, and Newfoundland to Alaska, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Alberta, and Washington.
- 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
