AZALEA IN NORTH CAROLINA 

 By W. W. Ashe 



Key to Eastern Species following that of Small's Flora of the 

 Southeastern United States. Only the species in italics in the key 

 are known to occur in North Carolina. 



Corollas expanding Avitli or before the leaves 

 Corollas red or orange or yellow 

 Flowers with the leaves 



Corolla tube glandular outside (1) A. calendulacea Mx. 



Tube merely pubescent outside (2) A. speciosa Willd. 



Flowers before the leaves (3) A. austrina Small 



Corollas white, pink, or purplish 



Low stoloniferous shrubs, under 5 dm. high 



Flowers white, tube glandular, funnel-form (4) A. atlantica Ashe 



Flowers purplish, only back of lobes glandular, tube cylindrical 



(5) A. neglecta Ashe 

 Not stoloniferous, more than 5 dm. high 

 Leaf blades pubescent beneath 



Corolla tube pilose, dilated above middle 

 Leaves not glauccscent under pubescence 



(6) A. rofica Lois.-Desl. 



Leaves glaucescent under pubescence (7) A. alabamensis* n. c. 



Corolla tube villose, apex abruptly expanded (8) A. canescens Mx. 



Leaf blades strigose only on midrib beneath (9) A. nudiflora L. 



Corolla expanding after the leaves 



Leaf blades glabrous beneath or with scattered hairs (except var. of (10) 



Midnerve strigose beneath at maturity (10) A. viscosa L. 



Midnerve glabrous at maturity 



Leaves serrulate (11) A.' serrulata Small 



Leaves with ciliate margins 



Corolla glandular pilose (12) A. arboresccns Pursh. 



Corolla nearly glabrous (13) A. prunifolia Small 



Azalea speciosa should be looked for in North Carolina near the 

 base of the Blue Ridge between Jackson and Polk counties. 



The following varieties have been reported from or should be 

 looked for in North Carolina: 



A. nudiflora glandifera Porter. It has the pedicels and corolla 

 tubes more or less glandular pubescent. 



* Rhododendron atabanienne UpIuI. A/.al., 141. 1921. 



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