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Epigaea repens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trailing-Arbutus ; Epigaea repens ; Other common names.—Gravel plant, Mayflower, shadflower, ground laurel, mountain pink, winter pink. Habitat and range.—Trailing- arbutus spread out on the ground in sandy soil, being found from Newfoundland to Michigan and Saskatchewan and south to Kentucky and Florida.
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---Habitat---The Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens, Linn.) is a small evergreen creeping shrub, found in sandy soil in many parts of North America, in the shade of pines. Its natural home is under trees, and it will thrive in this country only in moist, sandy peat in shady places.
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Trailing Arbutus; Ericaceae. 10cm. ... Prostrate groundcover, with hairy stems. Leaves are oval, leathery in appearance, often horizontal and large. Flowers are fragrant pink or white tubes, occurring in clusters in early spring. Common in dry wooded areas.
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Description.—This plant, generally referred to in the drug trade as gravel plant but more popularly known as ''trailing-arbutus" spreads on the ground with stem 6 or more in length. It has rust-colored, hairy twigs bearing leathery, evergreen leaves from 1 to 3 inches long and about half as wide.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about trailing arbutus. trailing arbutus. Information about trailing arbutus in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from trailing arbutus)
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Common Shrub Species of the Northwest Forest ... ; Epigaea repens ; Trailing Arbutus; Ericaceae (Heath Family) ... General - perennial, evergreen, hemicryptophyte, subshrubs, autotrophic, monoclinous, with adventitious roots and with fibrous roots, 0.02-0.4 m tall, with rhizomes.
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