Taxonomy
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Habitat
Moist or dry woods and cold bogs.
Associates
Distribution
Circumpolar, south in North America to NJ, WV, northern IN, MN, and CA.
Morphology
Barely woody evergreen; stems trailing and creeping, producing numerous short, suberect, leafy branches to 10 cm, the branches with a slender terminal peduncle to 10 cm; leaves firm, short-petiolate, broadly oval to obovate, 1-2 cm; flowers nodding, in pairs at the end of the peduncle; corolla pink to white, funnelform to campanulate, 10-15 mm, shallowly 5-lobed, flaring from near the top of the calyx, hairy inside; stamens 4, paired, included, inserted near the base of the corolla tube.
Notes
Flowers June to August
Wetland indicator: FAC
The monospecific genus Linnaea was named in honor of Carl Linnaeus. The name was in use by prior to his formal description of this species in 1753.
References
Gleason, Henry A.
and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States
and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY.
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