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Labrador Tea

Ledum latifolium. Heath Family.

An erect shrub from one to three feet high. Leaves.--Thickly clothed beneath with a rusty wool; edges rolled; narrowly oblong. Flowers.--White; small; in clusters at the ends of the branches. Calyx.--Very small; five-toothed. Corolla.--Of five petals. Stamens.--Five or ten. Pistil.--One The dense woolliness which clothes the lower side of the leaves of Labrador tea easily identify it. It is found upon the mountains, and in boggy places, from Pennsylvania north and westward.