Pieris D. Don. Common name: Evergreen Fetterbush.
A genus of 7 species, shrubs, of e. Asia, e. North America, and Cuba. Judd (1982a) treats Pieris as a genus of 7 species, 4 in e. Asia, 1 in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, 1 in the se. United States Coastal Plain, and 1 in w. Cuba. Li et al. (2009) developed a phylogeny of the genus, and declined to recognize previously used subgenera and sections.
References: Judd (1979); Judd (1982a); Judd (2009b) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2009); Li et al. (2009); Stevens et al. (2004) In Kubitzki et al. (2004). Show full citations.
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