2.
Leucothoe fontanesiana
(Steudel) Sleumer, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 78: 438. 1959.
Mountain dog-laurel or dog-hobble, switch-ivy
Andromeda fontanesiana
Steudel, Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, 1: 88. 1840, based on
A. lanceolata
Desfontaines, Tabl. École Bot. ed. 3, 398. 1829, not Wallich 1820;
Leucothoe axillaris
(Lamarck) D. Don var.
editorum
(Fernald & B. G. Schubert) H. E. Ahles
Plants
1-2 m, branches spread-ing.
Leaves:
petiole 10-15 mm; blade oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 3-8 cm, margins entire or spinulose-serrulate, apex acute to long-acuminate, abaxial surface sparsely pilose.
Inflorescences
fascicled or solitary, sessile, dense, 20-60-flowered, 4-10 cm; bracts ± persistent, ovate-deltate, 1.7-2.2 mm.
Pedicels
2-2.5 mm.
Flowers:
sepals whitish, lanceolate-ovate, 1.7-2 mm, apex acute or subacute; corolla cylindric, 5-7 mm; filaments papillate (sometimes also spreading-hairy); anthers 1.2-1.5 mm, with 2 awns, thecae divergent distally; ovary glabrous.
Capsules
5-6 mm wide.
Seeds
ellipsoid or oblong; testa firm, reticulate.
2
n
= 22.
Flowering mid spring. Woods along mountain streams, mountain ravines, moist slopes, often associated with
Rhododendron maximum
; 200-2000 m; Ala., Ga., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Va.
