1216

Shrub
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere in GA

Look for it on moist slopes, bluffs, streambanks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
Slightly bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• American Azaleas p025
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p084
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p254
• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p106
• Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide p291

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Rhododendron alabamense   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhododendron alabamense   FAMILY Ericaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Azalea alabamensis