Taxon:
Pieris floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f.
Summary
Place of publication:
Gen. pl. 2:588. 1876
Verified:
03/14/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
- http://www.skud.info
- Chester, E. W. et al. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants. 1993-1997
- Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
- Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 Note: lists as P. floribunda (Pursh ex Sims) Benth. & Hook. f.
- Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984 Note: lists as P. floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f.
- Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985
- Luteyn, J. L. et al. 1995. Ericaceae - Part II. The superior-ovaried genera (Monotropoideae. Pyroloideae, Rhododendroideae. and Vaccinioideae p.p.). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 66:347. Note: mentions
- Luteyn, J. L. et al. 1996. Ericaceae of the southeastern United States. Castanea 61:131-132. Note: lists as P. floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f.
- Radford, A. E. et al. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. 1964 Note: lists as P. floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f.
- Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. 1978 Note: lists as P. floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f.
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986- Note: lists as P. floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f.
- Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
flutterbush – mountain fetterbush – mountain pieris – mountain-andromeda – German
vielblütige Lavendelheide – Swedish
amerikansk buskrosling –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | West Virginia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Georgia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | North Carolina | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Tennessee | http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Ericaceae&GenusID=Pieris&SpeciesID=floribunda |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Virginia | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Northern America
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NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [West Virginia]
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SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Ericaceae&GenusID=Pieris&SpeciesID=floribunda), Virginia]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Lampe & McCann) –