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|accepted_name=Andromeda polifolia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 393. 1753,
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Andromeda;Andromeda polifolia
|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>[[Andromeda]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Andromeda polifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 372
|treatment_page=page 504
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>5–80 cm, (without multicellular hairs); rootstocks creeping, ± horizontal. <b>Leaf</b> blades white-glaucous or, sometimes, green abaxially, (1–)2–5 cm × 1–8 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> erect or recurved, reddish or pale-glaucous, 6–20 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals valvate in bud, soon wide-spreading, whitish to reddish, especially marginally, 1–1.7 mm, apex blunt to acute, calyx saucer-shaped, without stomata; petals short-spreading or recurved, hairy adaxially, minutely papillate on margins, corolla 5–8 × 3.5–7 mm, without stomata; nectariferous tissue at ovary base; ovary depressed-globose; placentae attached next to summit of columella; style ± equaling corolla tube. <b>Capsules</b> 5-locular, 4–8 × 4–5 mm, deeply depressed apically obscuring style base, conspicuously glaucous when young, glabrous or hairy at base. <b>Seeds</b> brown, ca. 1 mm; testa smooth, lustrous. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Infection of <i>Andromeda polifolia</i> by species of the ascomycete genus Rhytisma Fries appears to result in leaves broadened and reddish, often not glaucous (A. L. Jacquemart 1998).</p><!--
--><p>A hybrid of <i></i>var.<i> latifolia</i> with <i></i>var.<i> polifolia</i> [<i>Andromeda</i> ×jamesiana Lepage; <i>A. polifolia</i> var. jamesiana (Lepage) B. Boivin] is known from southern Nunavut and from the James Bay and southern Hudson Bay regions of Ontario and Quebec (J. Cayouette 1986); it is characterized by the abaxial surfaces of leaves being both glaucous and white-puberulent. Other specimens having abaxial surfaces of leaves both glaucous and puberulent are scattered through the range of <i>A. polifolia</i>.</p>
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==Key==
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|1
|Leaf blades (1-)2-4 cm, abaxial surface white-glaucous (sometimes green), glabrous; corollas 5(-7) mm; corymbs 2-3(-4)-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, erect or lax, on erect or ascending branchlets; pedicels 10-20 mm.
|[[Andromeda polifolia var. polifolia|Andromeda polifolia var. polifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades (2-)3-5 cm, abaxial surface not glaucous, white-hairy to white-velutinous; corollas 6(-8) mm; corymbs (2-)4-8-flowered, nodding, on curved branchlets; pedicels seldom more than 6-8 mm.
|[[Andromeda polifolia var. latifolia|Andromeda polifolia var. latifolia]]
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name=Andromeda polifolia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;W.Va.;Wash.;Wis.;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_985.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Andromeda
|species=Andromeda polifolia
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