🌿 Family

Diapensiaceae

5 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Ericales › Diapensiaceae

Diapensia lapponica (the pincushion plant) is a slow-growing Arctic-alpine cushion evergreen shrub, the only circumboreal species in its genus.

Galax urceolata is an evergreen perennial herb harvested for floristry, used in herbalism, and grown ornamentally, with Galax, Virginia named for it.

Shortia galacifolia is an endemic relict shade-loving flowering plant native to a small North American range, that can be cultivated further north.

Flowering pixiemoss (Pyxidanthera barbulata) is a mat-forming subshrub native to the coastal eastern United States.

Pyxidanthera brevifolia, littleleaf pixiemoss, is a distinct plant species found only in the US Carolinas, closely related to P. barbulata.

Related Families

Ericaceae 520 species Polemoniaceae 150 species Primulaceae 126 species Sapotaceae 41 species Ebenaceae 30 species Balsaminaceae 18 species Theaceae 15 species Lecythidaceae 13 species

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