Common Name:
Bog Rosemary
Two species of low evergreen shrubs (A. glaucophylla and A. polifolia). Leaves simple, alternate, linear-lance sphaped to oblong, short petioled. Flowers small, white or pink, urn-shaped, 5-lobed, nodding, in terminal clusters (umbels). Fruit a capsule, 5-segmented, somewhat spherical. Native to cool-temperate regions of the Northen Hemisphere.
Andromeda: after the mythological maiden who was chained to a rock as an offering to the sea-monster and rescued by Perseus.
Pronunciation:
an-DROM-e-da
Family:
Ericaceae