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|accepted_name=Myrica pensylvanica
|accepted_authority=Mirbel in H. Duhamel du Monceau et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. Duhamel du Monceau et al., Traité Arbr. Arbust. Nouv. ed.
|place=2: 190. 1804
|year=1804
}}
|common_names=Northern bayberry;waxberry;tallow bayberry;small waxberry;tallowshrub;swamp candleberry;candlewood;candletree;tallowtree;myrique de Pennsylvanie
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cerothamnus pensylvanica
|authority=(Mirbel) Moldenke
|rank=species
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|name=Myrica cerifera var. frutescens
|authority=Castiglioni
|rank=variety
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|name=Myrica macfarlanei
|authority=Youngken
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Myricaceae;Myrica;Myrica pensylvanica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myricaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Myrica]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Myrica pensylvanica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or rarely small trees, deciduous, rhizomatous, colonial, to 2(-4.5) m. <b>Branchlets</b> reddish brown and gland-dotted when young, becoming whitish gray in age, otherwise densely pilose; glands yellow. <b>Leaf</b> blade aromatic when crushed, oblanceolate to elliptic, occasionally obovate, 2.5-6.5(-7.8) × 1.5-2.7 cm, usually membranous, less often leathery, base cuneate to attenuate, margins sometimes entire, usually serrate distal to middle, apex obtuse to rounded, sometimes acute, short-apiculate; surfaces abaxially pale green, pilose on veins, moderately to densely glandular, adaxially dark green, pilose (especially along midrib), glandless or sparsely glandular; glands yellow-brown. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate 0.4-1.8 cm; pistillate 0.3-1.4 cm. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: bract of flower shorter than staminal column, margins opaque, apically ciliate or completely glabrous, usually abaxially glabrous, occasionally densely pilose; stamens mostly 3-4. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: bracteoles persistent in fruit, 4, not accrescent or adnate to fruit wall, margins slightly ciliate or glabrous, abaxially usually densely gland-dotted; ovary wall densely hirsute near apex, otherwise glabrous. <b>Fruits</b> globose-ellipsoid, 3.5-5.5 mm; fruit wall and warty protuberances hirsute, at least when young, hairs usually obscured by thick coat of white wax.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer, fruiting late summer–fall.
|habitat=Coastal dunes, pine barrens, pine-oak forests, old fields, bogs, edges of streams, ponds, and swamps
|elevation=0-325 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Where their ranges overlap, <i>Myrica pensylvanica</i> hybridizes quite readily with both <i>M. cerifera</i> and <i>M. heterophylla</i>. This ease of hybridization obviously contributes to an already complicated taxonomic situation; it is a matter for further field-based investigation.</p>
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name=Myrica pensylvanica
|authority=Mirbel in H. Duhamel du Monceau et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cerothamnus pensylvanica;Myrica cerifera var. frutescens;Myrica macfarlanei
|basionyms=
|family=Myricaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer, fruiting late summer–fall.
|habitat=Coastal dunes, pine barrens, pine-oak forests, old fields, bogs, edges of streams, ponds, and swamps
|elevation=0-325 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. Duhamel du Monceau et al., Traité Arbr. Arbust. Nouv. ed.
|publication year=1804
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated;Weedy
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_838.xml
|genus=Myrica
|species=Myrica pensylvanica
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