OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rhododendron serrulatum   FAMILY Ericaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhododendron viscosum   FAMILY Ericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Rhododendron viscosum

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Taxonomy, ecology, and distribution of the genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae) in SC (Horn, 2019)

Rhododendron viscosum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Rhododendron viscosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Rhododendron viscosum var. serrulatum: Dirt Roads, Mud Holes, and Living Things (Miller, 2012)

Rhododendron viscosum var. serrulatum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Rhododendron viscosum

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Rhododendron viscosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-05-011b:

Rhododendron viscosum var. serrulatum   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Rhododendron serrulatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Azalea serrulata

 

COMMON NAME:
Swamp Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Sweet Azalea


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image of Rhododendron serrulatum, Swamp Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Sweet Azalea

Keith Bradley    kab_r_viscosum_79145

July    Highlands County    FL

Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park

Corolla tube glabrous within; pistil usually noticeably longer than stamens, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Rhododendron serrulatum, Swamp Azalea, Clammy Azalea, Sweet Azalea

Keith Bradley    kab_r_viscosum_79150

July    Highlands County    FL

Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park

Leaves glabrous below, except for strigose bristles along midrib & major veins, per Weakley's Flora.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rhododendron serrulatum   FAMILY Ericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhododendron viscosum   FAMILY Ericaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Rhododendron viscosum

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Taxonomy, ecology, and distribution of the genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae) in SC (Horn, 2019)
Rhododendron viscosum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Rhododendron viscosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Rhododendron viscosum var. serrulatum: Dirt Roads, Mud Holes, and Living Things (Miller, 2012)
Rhododendron viscosum var. serrulatum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Rhododendron viscosum

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Rhododendron viscosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 145-05-011b:
Rhododendron viscosum var. serrulatum   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Rhododendron serrulatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Azalea serrulata

 

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4354

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: bogs, pocosins, wet pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White (rarely pink)
Slightly bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 stamens, noticeably shorter than pistil
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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