View source for Leucothoë axillaris

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Leucothoë axillaris
|accepted_authority=(Lamarck) D. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|place=17: 159. 1834 ,
}}
|common_names=Swamp dog-laurel;coastal dog-hobble
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Andromeda axillaris
|authority=Lamarck
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication_place=1: 157. 1783
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leucothoë axillaris var. ambigens
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leucothoë catesbaei
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leucothoë platyphylla
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Leucothoë;Leucothoë axillaris
|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>[[Leucothoë]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leucothoë axillaris]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 509
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>1–2 m, branches spreading. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–10 mm; blade oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 3–8 cm, margins entire or spinulose-serrulate, apex acute to abruptly short-acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicled or solitary, sessile, dense, 8–30-flowered, 2–4(–5) cm; bracts ± deciduous, ovate, 2–2.5 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 2.2–2.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals whitish, broadly ovate, 1.5–2 mm, apex obtuse or rounded; corolla cylindric, 6–8 mm; filaments spreading-hairy, papillate; anthers 0.7–1.2 mm, with 2 awns, thecae divergent distally; ovary glabrous. <b>Capsules</b> (4.5–)5–6 mm wide. <b>Seeds</b> angular; testa firm, papillose. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early-mid spring.
|habitat=Flood plains of black-water streams, coastal plain
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Leucothoë axillaris
|authority=(Lamarck) D. Don
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Leucothoë axillaris var. ambigens;Leucothoë catesbaei;Leucothoë platyphylla
|basionyms=Andromeda axillaris
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering early-mid spring.
|habitat=Flood plains of black-water streams, coastal plain
|elevation=0-200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Leucothoë
|species=Leucothoë axillaris
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