Rhododendron prunifolium (Small) Millais is a plant in the Ericaceae family, order Ericales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Rhododendron prunifolium (Small) Millais

Rhododendron prunifolium (Small) Millais

Rhododendron prunifolium, the plumleaf azalea, is the rarest Eastern US azalea native only to the Georgia-Alabama border.

Family
Genus
Rhododendron
Order
Ericales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Rhododendron prunifolium (Small) Millais

Rhododendron prunifolium, commonly called the plumleaf azalea, is a wild azalea species. It grows naturally only in a small number of counties along the Georgia–Alabama border, located in the Chattahoochee River Valley. This species is classified as the rarest azalea found in the Eastern United States. Providence Canyon is one of the best-known locations to view wild-growing plumleaf azaleas.

Photo: (c) Roger Birkhead, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Roger Birkhead · cc-by-nc-nd

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ericales Ericaceae Rhododendron

More from Ericaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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