New York Metropolitan Flora

Genus: Andromeda

Andromeda - Bog Rosemary
Andromeda glaucophylla - Bog Rosemary Photo © Peter Nelson, 1991, taken at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

By Steven Clemants

Not peer reviewed

Last Modified 04/08/2013

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Nomenclature

Andromeda L., Sp. Pl. 1: 393. 1753. Gen. Pl. 186. 1754. Polifolia Nakai, Trees Shrubs Japan 1: 154. 1922, nom. illeg. (Art. 52.1). TYPE: Andromeda polifolia L., designated by Don (1834).

List of Andromeda Species

Andromeda glaucophylla

References to Andromeda

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  • Fernald, M. L. 1916. A calciphile variety of Andromeda glaucophylla. Rhodora 18: 100-2.
  • Fernald, M. L. 1903. Andromeda polifolia and A. glaucophylla. Rhodora 5: 67-71.
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  • Hagerup, O. 1941. Zytokologische Bicornes-Studien. Planta 32: 6-14.
  • Hagerup, O. 1954. Autogamy in some drooping Bicornes flowers. Bot. Tidsskr. 51: 103-9.
  • Hancy, A. J. 1916. The vascular anatomy of certain Ericaceous flowers. M.A. Thesis Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY37 figs. + 20 p.
  • Jarvis, C. E.; McClintock, D. 1990. Notes on the typification of fourteen Linnaean names for European species of Erica, Calluna, and Andromeda (Ericaceae). Taxon 39: 517-20.
  • Karlin, E. F.; Lynn, L. M. 1988. Dwarf-shrub bogs of the southern Catskill Mountain region of New York State: Geographic changes in the flora of peatlands in northern New Jersey and southern New York. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 115: 209-17.
  • Kron, K. A.; Judd, W. S.; Crayn, D. M. 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of Andromedaea (Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae). Amer. J. Bot. 86: 1290-1300.
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  • Lynn, L. M.; Karlin, E. F. 1985. The vegetation of the low-shrub bogs of northern New Jersey and adjacent New York: Ecosystems at their southern limit. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 112: 436-44.
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  • Oldfield, F. 1959. The pollen morphology of some of the West European Ericales. Pollen & Spores 1: 19-48.
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  • Petersen, H. E. 1908. The structure and biology of arctic flowering plants. 1. Ericineae (Ericaceae, Pirolaceae). 2. The biological anatomy of the leaves and stems. Meddel. Gronland 36: 75-138.
  • Reader, R. J. 1977. Bog ericad flowers: self-compatibility and relative attractiveness to bees. Canad. J. Bot. 55: 2279-87.
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  • Reader, R. J. 1979. Flower cold hardiness: a potential determinant of the flowering sequence exhibited by bog ericads. Canad. J. Bot. 57: 997-9.
  • Schread, John-C. 1955. Control of the Andromeda lace bug.
  • Small, E. 1976. Insect pollinators of the Mer Bleue peat bog of Ottawa. Canad. Field-Naturalist 90: 22-28.
  • Warming, E. 1908. The structure and biology of arctic flowering plants. 1. Ericineae (Ericaceae, Pirolaceae). 1. Morphology and biology. Meddel. Gronland 36: 1-71.
  • Wherry, Edgar T. 1920. Soil tests of Ericaceae and other reaction-sensitive families in northern Vermont and New Hampshire. Rhodora 22: 33-49.
  • Young, J. A.; Young, C. G. 1992. Andromeda. In: Seeds of Woody Plants in North America. Dioscorides Press, Portland. , 33 pages.