Index / Search / Rhododendron minus
§1 Plant
Rhododendron minus Michx.
vernacular piedmont rhododendron — species · Ericaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ericaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Rhododendron
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 87 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 87 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Banks 13011
- Clay 13061
- Cobb 13067
- Elbert 13105
- Fannin 13111
- Forsyth 13117
- Franklin 13119
- Fulton 13121
- Habersham 13137
- Hall 13139
- Hancock 13141
- Harris 13145
- Hart 13147
- Henry 13151
- Lee 13177
- Lincoln 13181
- Lumpkin 13187
- Meriwether 13199
- Murray 13213
- Oconee 13219
- Polk 13233
- Rabun 13241
- Randolph 13243
- Richmond 13245
- Spalding 13255
- Stephens 13257
- Stewart 13259
- Talbot 13263
- Upson 13293
- White 13311
- Wilkes 13317
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Avery 37011
- Buncombe 37021
- Burke 37023
- Caldwell 37027
- Cleveland 37045
- Graham 37075
- Greene 37079
- Haywood 37087
- Henderson 37089
- Jackson 37099
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- McDowell 37111
- Mitchell 37121
- Montgomery 37123
- Polk 37149
- Richmond 37153
- Rutherford 37161
- Swain 37173
- Transylvania 37175
- Watauga 37189
- Yancey 37199
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RHMI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2883076 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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