Ericaceae A.L. de Jussieu. Common name: Heath Family.

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A family of about 107-124 genera and 4100-4500 species, primarily shrubs, small trees, and subshrubs, nearly cosmopolitan. The Ericaceae is very important in our area, which is one of the north temperate centers of diversity for the Ericaceae, with a great diversity of genera and species, many of them rather narrowly endemic. Along with Quercus and Pinus, various members of this family are dominant in much of our regional landscape.

References: Cullings & Hileman (1997); Dorr & Barrie (1993); Freudenstein & Broe (2024); Gillespie & Kron (2010); Gillespie & Kron (2013); Judd (1979); Judd (1984); Judd & Kron (1993); Kron & Chase (1993); Kron et al. (2002); Kron, Powell, & Luteyn (2002); Luteyn et al. (1996); Stevens et al. (2004) In Kubitzki et al. (2004); Tucker (2009a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2009); Wood (1961). Show full citations.

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