North America Wildflowers, Shrubs, and Trees

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Ericaceae > Ledum (labrador tea)
	Bog Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum) Campobello Park, New Brunswick, Canada 6 July 2011 Not found in NC, this northern species grows in bogs & fens across Canada and the northern US. It's listed from threatened to endangered in several states.
	Bog Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum) Campobello Park, New Brunswick, Canada 6 July 2011 Some authorities sink this genus into the genus Rhododendron and consider this species to be Rhododendron groenlandicum.
	Bog Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum) Campobello Park, New Brunswick, Canada 6 July 2011 This shrub can be locally abundant in the right habitat.

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.