Rusty Lyonia

Xolisma ferruginea (Walt.) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. PI. 6. 1898
Andromeda ferruginea Walt. Fl. Car. 138. 1788,
Andromeda ferruginea arborescens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 252. 1803.
Andromeda rigida Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 292, 1814.
Lyonia rigida Nutt. Gen. 1: 266. 1818.
Lyonia ferruginea G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 830. 1834. Not L. ferruginea Nutt. 1818.
Lyonia rhomboidalis G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 831. 1834.
A widely branching shrub or a small tree, with reddish-scurfy twigs; leaves not much reduced toward the ends of the branchlets, the blades elliptic, oval, obovate, or oblanceolate, 2.5-7 cm. long, acute, short-acuminate, or mucronate, glabrous above, red-scurfy beneath, short-petioled ; panicles short, often cluster-like, more or less leaf y-bracted ; caljrx 3.5-4 mm. wide, the lobes deltoid-ovate, abruptly pointed; corolla 2.5-3 mm. long; filaments puberulent; anthers nearly 1.5 mm. long; capsules oblong-ovoid to oval, 4-6 mm. long.
TypB locawty: Carolina. Distribution: South Carolina to Florida, Ii,i,xiSTRATiON : Vent. Jard. Malm. pi. 80.

Showing rusty colored newer growth

Lyonia ferruginea, the rusty staggerbush, tree lyonia, dragon tree, is a plant of the genus Lyonia. It was first described by Thomas Walter, and was named by Thomas Nuttall. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.