Family: Cistaceae

Hudsonia tomentosa
Hudsonia tomentosa   Nutt.  -  Beach Heather
Photo © by Peter Nelson
Taken in the Pine Barrens, NJ, 1967.

By Kerry Barringer

Not peer reviewed

Last Modified 04/29/2013

List of Cistaceae Genera

References to Cistaceae

  • Arrington, J. M. 2004. Systematics of the Cistaceae. Ph.D. Thesis Duke Univ., Durham, NC,
  • Barringer, Kerry 2004. New Jersey pinweeds (Lechea, Cistaceae). J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 131: 261-276.
  • Blake, S. F. 1918. Notes on the Calyton Herbarium. 8. Azalea lutea L. Rhodora 20: 21-8, 48-54, 65-73. (Other Families and Genera discussed)
  • Bowles, M. L.; DeMauro, M. M.; Pavlovic, N.; Hiebert, R. D. 1990. Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on endangered and threatened plants at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Natural Areas Journal 10: 187-200.
  • Britton, Nathaniel L. 1894. A revision of the genus Lechea. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 244-253.
  • Brizicky, George K. 1964. The genera of Cistaceae in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 45: 346-357.
  • Dickie, I. A. et.al. 2004. Shared ectomycorrhizal fungi between a herbaceous perennial (Helianthemum bicknellii) and oak (Quercus) seedlings. New Phyt. 164: 375-382.
  • Dunwiddie, P. W. 1990. Rare plants on coastal heathlands: Observations on Corema conradii(Empetraceae) and Helianthemum dumosum (Cistaceae). Rhodora 92(869): 22-6.
  • Hall, M. T. 1957. Variation in the genus Hudsonia. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 66: 321-2.
  • Harshberger, J. W. 1916. The vegetation of the New Jersey pine-barrens. Christopher Sower, Philadelphia, PA. , 329 pages.
  • Hessl, A.; Spackman, S. 1995. Effects of fire on threatened and endangered plants: an annotated bibliography. US Dept. Interior, National Biological Service, Washington, DC.. , 55 pages. (Information and Technology Report 2)
  • Massicotte, H. B. et.al. 2010. Hudsonia ericoides and Hudsonia tomentosa: anatomy of mycorrhizas of two members in the Cistaceae from eastern Canada. Botany 88: 607-616.
  • Miller, E. S. 1872. Suffolk county plants. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 3: 56.
  • Morse, L. E. 1975. Systematics and ecological biogeography of the genus Hudsonia (Cistaceae), the sand heaths. Ph.D. Dissertation Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA,
  • Nandi, O. I. 1998. Floral development and systematics of Cistaceae. Pl. Syst. Evol. 212: 107-134.
  • Nelson, S. D.; Bliss, L. C.; Mayo, J. M. 1986. Nitrogen fixation in relation to Hudsonia tomentosa: a pioneer species in sand dunes, northeastern Alberta. Canad. J. Bot. 64: 2495-501.
  • Reveal, J. L. 1986. Additional comments on Linnaean types of eastern North American plants. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 92: 161-176.
  • Reveal, J. L. 1989. Proposals to conserve the names and types of three North American Linnaean species. Taxon 38: 515-519.
  • Robinson, B. L. 1908. Notes on the vascular plants of the northeastern United States. Rhodora 10: 29-35.
  • Sipple, W. S. 2002. Pine-barren golden-heather (Hudsonia ericoides L.) reported for the first time in Maryland. Bartonia 61: 149-150.
  • Skog, J. T.; Nickerson, N. H. 1972. Variation and speciation in the genus Hudsonia. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 59(3): 454-64.
  • Thanos, C. A. et al. et.al. 1993. Cistaceae: a plant family with hard seeds. Israel J. Bot. 41: 251-63.
  • Ukraintseva, V. V. 1993. Pollen morphology of the family Cistaceae in relation to its taxonomy. Grana Suppl. 2: 33-36.
  • Weiss, H. B.; West, E. 1924. Insects and plants of a dry woods in the pine barrens of New Jersey. Ecology 5: 241-53.