Wetland Plants and Plant Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin

BOG ROSEMARY

(Andromeda glaucophylla Link)

HEATH FAMILY (Ericaceae)

IND. STATUS: OBL

FIELD CHARACTERISTICS: A low, evergreen shrub growing to 5 dm. in height. The leaves are alternate,narrowly linear, 2-5 cm. long, sessile, entire, leathery, and strongly inrolled. Leaves blue-green above and whitened below. The corolla is urn- shaped, pink (sometimes white), 5-6 mm. long and arranged on terminal, drooping, umbel-like racemes with stalks to 8 mm. In flower during May and June.

ECOLOGICAL NOTES: Bog rosemary is restricterd to bogs.

SOURCE: Gleason and Cronquist (1991).

Previous Section -- Labrador-tea (Ledum groenlandicum Oeder)
Return to Contents
Next Section -- Small Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos L.)