HEATH FAMILY (Ericaceae)
IND. STATUS: OBL
FIELD CHARACTERISTICS: A low, evergreen shrub growing to 5 dm. in height. The leaves are alternate,narrowly linear, 2-5 cm. long, sessile, entire, leathery, and strongly inrolled. Leaves blue-green above and whitened below. The corolla is urn- shaped, pink (sometimes white), 5-6 mm. long and arranged on terminal, drooping, umbel-like racemes with stalks to 8 mm. In flower during May and June.
ECOLOGICAL NOTES: Bog rosemary is restricterd to bogs.
SOURCE: Gleason and Cronquist (1991).