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Common Name: Pinkshell Azalea
Scientific Name: Rhododendron vaseyi
Family: Ericaceae
North Carolina Native Wildflower
Blue Ridge Parkway
North Carolina
May 9, 2002
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The bright pink flowers, with slender, exserted stamens and a style 1 inch or more long, open before the leaves come out on these rare shrubs. Native only to North Carolina, but cultivated elsewhere, these tall shrubs grow infrequently in bogs and in spruce forests at high elevations in 3 of our mountain counties. May - June [Justice, William S. and Bell, C. Ritchie, Wild Flowers of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1968]
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Alphabetical Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
Family Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z
Genus Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z