Contemporary Circumscription Compared with A Utah Flora 4th ed.
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Ericaceae
A few small segregate families in A Utah Flora (such as Monotropaceae) should be included in this family.
Key Features
Synoecious evergreen or deciduous shrubs, or herbs, preferring acidic soils, usually strongly mycorrhizal. Flowers often urn shaped, but not always! A few members are fully parasitic and lack chlorophyll.
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Rhododendron occidentale
Rhododendron occidentale - large, showy zygomorphic flowers with fused petals
Blueberry - from an inferior ovary; the 'crown' are the sepals
Blueberry
Pyrolla picta
Pyrolla picta - this species has free petals, anthers dehiscing by pores, and superior ovary
Sarcodes sanguinea - a fully parasitic plant
Sarcodes sanguinea - sepals are free, petals are fused forming an urceolate corolla
Sarcodes sanguinea - section through flower revealing superior ovary
Sarcodes sanguinea - post flowering
Pterospora - a fully parasitic plant; post flowering
Erica mediterranea
Erica mediterranea - urceolate corollas, superior ovary
Arctostapholos punctata
Arctostapholos punctata
Arctostapholos punctata
Kalmia latifolia - Mountain laural. North Carolina
Rhododendron maximum
Leucothoe racemosa - capsules
Chimaphilia maculata
Chimaphilia maculata
Rhododendron nudiflorum
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