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|accepted_name=Lyonia mariana
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) D. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|place=17: 159. 1834,
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Andromeda mariana
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 393. 1753
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Neopieris mariana
|authority=(Linnaeus) Britton
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Lyonia;Lyonia mariana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lyonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lyonia mariana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 501
|treatment_page=page 502
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> to 1.5 m. <b>Stems</b> erect, terete to slightly angled. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; blade narrowly to widely elliptic, ovate, or obovate, (2.5–)3–8(–10.5) × 1–4(–5) cm, membranous, base narrowly cuneate to rounded, margins entire, plane to slightly revolute, apex acute to rounded-mucronate or slightly acuminate, surfaces scattered, multicellular, glandular short-headed-hairy, not lepidote, otherwise glabrous or hairy on major veins, intramarginal vein absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles, developing from buds along distal portion of stems of previous year; bracts 1 per flower, linear-lanceolate, to 4.5 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> glandular-hairy, not lepidote. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes 3–9.5 × 1–4 mm, glandular-hairy, not lepidote; corolla usually white, rarely pink, cylindric (base not swollen), 7–14 × 4.5–9 mm; filaments 4–7 mm, long-hairy, especially near base, with 2 ± well-developed spurs. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 4–6.5 × 3–6 mm, apex strongly constricted, short-headed-hairy, otherwise glabrous or hairy; sutures usually remaining attached to adjacent valve; placentae central to nearly basal. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Open, acid, dry to moist pine and/or oak forests, flatwoods, or savannas, often in ecotonal situations, less often in shrub bogs, pond margins, and acid swamps
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Leaves of <i>Lyonia mariana</i> (and probably other species as well) contain andromedotoxin and are known to cause livestock poisoning; the species is occasionally used as an ornamental. The western populations tend to be much hairier than those of the Atlantic coastal plain.</p>
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name=Lyonia mariana
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) D. Don
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Neopieris mariana
|basionyms=Andromeda mariana
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Open, acid, dry to moist pine and/or oak forests, flatwoods, or savannas, often in ecotonal situations, less often in shrub bogs, pond margins, and acid swamps
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Lyonia
|species=Lyonia mariana
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