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Menziesia pilosa

hairy minnie-bush, minniebush
Habit Shrubs erect, branching, inodorous, 1–2 m; bark of older branches shreddy; twigs ± chaffy, densely stiff-hairy.
Leaves

petiole 2–4 mm, (hairy);

blade green, elliptic to oblong-obovate, 1.5–4 cm, base cuneate, margins ciliate, apex acute to subacute, with prominently glandular-mucronate tip ca. 1 mm, abaxial surface densely pilose, with few, narrowly oblong, lacerate or cleft, multicellular scales on midvein, adaxial surface strigose-hirsute or pilose.
Pedicels

drooping, spreading to erect in fruit, filiform, 1–3 cm, stipitate-glandular.
Flowers

appearing with leaves;

calyx lobes triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm, margins lacerate/hirsute-ciliate, glandular, apex rounded, glabrous to sparsely hairy;

corolla greenish red to yellowish white tinged with red, 8–10 × 5.5–7 mm, lobes 1–2 mm; nectariferous disc obscurely 8-crenate;

filaments subulate, flattish, slightly dilated proximally, glabrous;

anthers linear-oblong;

ovary obovate-globose, glandular-hairy.
Capsules

obovoid-ovoid to globose, 6 mm, densely stipitate-glandular.
Seeds

brown, narrowly ovoid, ca. 1 mm including apiculuslike, 0.1 mm appendage at distal end.

Menziesia pilosa
Phenology Flowering May–Jul; fruiting Aug–Oct.
Habitat Heath balds, bogs, rocky summits and rocky woodlands in mountains (rarely in the Piedmont)
Elevation 200-2100 m (700-6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
GA; MD; NC; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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Discussion

Menziesia pilosa is a southern and central Appalachian endemic occurring from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. Although it can be locally common at high elevations in the southern Blue Ridge, it is of conservation concern in much of its range, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 452.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Ericoideae > Menziesia
Sibling taxa
M. ferruginea
Synonyms Azalea pilosa
Name authority (Michaux) Jussieu: Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 1: 56. 1802 ,
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