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§1 Plant
Rhododendron atlanticum (Ashe) Rehder
vernacular dwarf azalea — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Rhododendron
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 94 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 7 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 220 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.2–5.7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Colonizing
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 2.3 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 2,500,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 94 counties across 8 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Camden 37029
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Greene 37079
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Tyrrell 37177
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Goochland 51075
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King William 51101
- Mecklenburg 51117
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince George 51149
- Southampton 51175
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RHAT ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2883032 ↗Record version
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