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Photographer: John Kohout
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Family Ericaceae
Epigaea repens L.
trailing-arbutus
Epigaea: Greek epi for "upon" and ge for "the earth" referring to trailing growth
repens: having creeping and rooting stems
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | trailing/creeping, perennial, 1"-3" tall shrub; stems branching |
| Flower: | pink, 5-parted, 1/2" wide, funnel-shaped, fragrant, tube 1/3"-1/2" long with a very hairy throat, 2 oval bracts almost as long as the sepals; tube 1/3"-1/2" long with a very hairy throat; inflorescence a dense, short, terminal spike; blooms Mar.-May |
| Fruit: | fleshy, round, berry-like, pulpy, white inside |
| Leaf: | evergreen, leathery, alternate, oval to oblong with a rounded to heart-shaped base, stalk hairy and half as long as the leaf |
| Habitat: | moist; bogs, forests; in sandy, rocky, acidic soil |
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