Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
WOODY PLANT(usually shrubs) with leaves with PARALLEL VENATION (Fig. 26). Leaves alternate or spirally arranged, often crowded, rigid, ericoid, often sharp-pointed; the margins usually entire but sometimes denticulate; stipules absent Ericaceae
Stamens 4–5, as many as corolla lobes or less
Leaves with a sheathing base which falls off with the leaf
Branches smooth, without annular scars Sprengelia
Diffuse or procumbent, often very small shrub. Leaves narrow, lanceolate-subulate, spreading, 3–6 mm long. Flowers solitary. Sepals lanceolate, pale. Corolla 6–8 mm long, white or pinkish; the lobes broadly imbricate in the bud. Blue Mts Often on wet rock ledges. Ss. Fl. spring–summer Sprengelia monticola
Erect shrubs. Leaves tapering from the broad base