| Loiseleuria procimbens (L.) Desv. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Azalea procumbens L. | ||
| Common name | alpine azalea | ||
| Description | Depressed, evergreen dwarf shrub, forming mats, often covering stones; leaves opposite, elliptical, coriaceous, with reflexed margin, whitish beneath; pedicels and calyx dark purple; flowers small, pink, in few-flowered clusters; style short. | ||
| Ecology | In the mountains to at least 2,000 meters; prefers acid soil. Described from the European Alps. |
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.