Andromeda polifolia (Bog Rosemary) - photos and description
Origin: Native.
General: A small shrub with a branching growth habit and leathery leaves.
Flowers: Flowers grow in umbels, are pinkish-white in colour and urn shaped. We measured flowers to 6 mm long.
Leaves: Leaves are linear, alternate, with edges rolled under, and a glaucous underside. Leaf highlighted in photo above was 45 mm long by 5 mm wide.
Height: Height listed in Budd's Flora to 40 cm. We measured plants to 34 cm tall.
Habitat: Habitat is bogs and muskeg in the boreal forest.
Abundance: Common.
When and where photographed: Photos taken June 13th, plants were almost done flowering, bog in the Boreal forest, about 400 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.