Subgenus Rhododendron
Section Rhododendron
Subsection Ledum

Erect shrub, 0.5 - 2m; young shoots ferrugineous-lanate. Leaves 1.2-6 x 0.5-1.5cm, linear-elliptic, margins revolute, upper surface dark green, lower surface with a thickly ferrugineous lanate indumentum that usually conceals the midrib, epidermis papillose covered with short white setulose hairs, scales dense, rimless, golden, intermixed with red-brown glands; petioles 1-5mm.

Flowers numerous in a loose terminal umbellate corymb; calyx minute, corolla white, rotate, 4-8mm; stamens 7-10; ovary glandular, style glabrous.

-20F

May-June

Greenland, Canada, northern USA

s.1.-1,800m

Source: The Rhododendron Handbook 1998; Published by the Royal Horticulture Society

R. groenlandicum


Nellita Rd on Kitsap Peninsula, Washington
by Hank Helm

R. groenlandicum
South of Seabeck on Kitsap Peninsula, Washington
by Hank Helm