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Western Labrador Tea
Rhododendron columbianum
  
About Western Labrador Tea (Rhododendron columbianum) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Rhododendron neoglandulosum (formerly Ledum glandulosum) is a species of rhododendron known by the common names western Labrador tea and trapper's tea. It is a common shrub of western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in moist areas such as bogs and marshes. This is an erect evergreen shrub exceeding a meter in maximum height with hairless bark along the stem and hairy or nonhairy hairs on the newer twigs. The leathery leaves are oval-shaped and up to about 3.5 centimeters long. They are fuzzy and hairy on the undersides. The flower clusters appear at the ends of branches. They are racemes of small white to cream or yellowish flowers with five rounded petals and 8 to 10 protruding stamens. The fruit is a capsule containing winged seeds. A number of Native American peoples boiled the leaves of this shrub to make tea.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Shrub

Size
Size
3.3 - 5 ft tall

Dormancy
Dormancy
Evergreen

Flower Color
Flower Color
White, Yellow, Cream

Wildlife Supported
 


 
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Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Shade

Sunset Zones
Sunset Zones?
1, 2, 4*, 5*, 6*, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17*

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Wet places

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 8.4" - 139.1", Summer Precipitation: 0.30" - 4.85", Coldest Month: 21.1" - 50.5", Hottest Month: 42.9" - 74.1", Humidity: 0.01" - 22.26", Elevation: 10" - 11755"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Glandular Labrador Tea, Trapper's Tea


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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