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§1 Plant
Ledum glandulosum Nutt.
vernacular western Labrador tea — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ledum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 86 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.6–7
- Root depth
- 18 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 4.5 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Yellow-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 86 counties across 8 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Butte 06007
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Humboldt 06023
- Inyo 06027
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Monterey 06053
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Idaho view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LEGL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4165978 ↗Record version
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