| Ledum palastre subsp. decimbens (Ait.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ledum decumbens (Ait.) Small., Ledum palustre var. decumbens Ait. | ||
| Description | Low shrub, with brown, puberulent young twigs, glabrescent in age; flowers in umbel-like clusters; leaves linear, somewhat acute, with strongly revolute margin, shiny and glabrous above, cinnamon-brown, woolly beneath; pedicels rusty-puber- ulent; stamens mostly 10, hooked or curved at maturity; flowers white or pinkish. | ||
| Ecology | Heaths, dry, rocky places, in the mountains to at least 1,800 meters; very com- mon. Described from Hudson Bay. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. palastre. | ||
| Uses | Contains ledol, a poisonous substance causing cramps and paralysis. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.