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Rhododendron viscosum - (image 1 of 5)

Taxonomy

Family: Ericaceae

Habitat

Wet woods, swamps, lake shores. 

Associates

 Distribution

ME west to OH, south to FL.

Morphology

Deciduous, branching and often colonial shrub to 2 m. Leaves thin, setose-hairy, eglandular, oblanceolate to obovate, 3-6 cm. Flowers white (rarely pink), appearing after the leaves emerge, pedicels and corolla-tube stipitate-glandular; corolla funnelform, the lobes reflexed and a little shorter than the tube in length but more than half as long); stamens 5; ovary stipitate-glandular.

Notes

Flowers late June to July

Wetland indicator: FAC

The flowers of this species are highly fragrant.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

USDA, NRCS. 2002. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov).
National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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