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Ledum L.

Suopursut
Ledum, Biota of North America Program (query database) [BONAP]
Ledum (Ericaceae) ; [GNSP]

Foodplants for Celastrina ladon, Plebejus cleobis tancrei

Ledum palustre L.

Suopursu Labrador Tea Getporst Skvattram
Rhododendron tomentosum Harmaja
Ledum palustre, Bilder ur Nordens Flora (in Swedish) [RUNEBERG]
Ledum palustre ; [RK, 209]
Leudm palustre ; [SK, 448]

600x818 (~49Kb) FINLAND: Kl: Uukuniemi, 685:65, 20.6.1997, Photo © Markku Savela

Foodplant for Acleris maccana, Aethalura punctulata, Alcis repandatus, Angerona prunaria, Arichanna melanaria, Chlorissa (geometra) viridata, Clossiana euphrosyne, Coenophila subrosea, Coleophora ledi, Dysstroma infuscata, Ematurga atomaria, Entephria caesiata, Eupithecia gelidata, Lasiocampa quercus, Lithomoia solidaginis, Lithophane lamda, Lycia zonaria, Neofaculta infernella, Odontopera bidentata, Phalacropterix graslinella, Selenia dentaria, Speranza brunneata, Sterrhopterix standfussi, Stigmella lediella, Syngrapha microgamma, Teleiodes epomidella

L. p. f. dilatata Whlnb.

Ledum palustre f. dilatata ; [SK, 448]
Ledum palustre var. dilatum ; [GMBOT, 631]

26.9.2000 (3)

References:

[BONAP]

A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; A data base interface; BONAP U.S. Checklist - 1998; Provided by TAMU-BWG; Texas A & M Bioinformatics Working Group; Based on; Biota of North America Program

[GMBOT]

Robinson, Benjamin, Fernald, Lyndon, 1908; Gray's New Manual of Botany (7th edition); A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada; American Book Company

[GNSP]

Wielgorskaya, 1995; Dictionary of generic names of seed plants

[RK]

Hämet-Ahti, L., Suominen, J., Ulvinen, T. & Uotila, P. (eds), 1998; Retkeilykasvio (Field Flora of Finland); Ed. 4. 656 pp.; Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museum. Helsinki

[RUNEBERG]

Project Runeberg: Nordic literature online; Project Runeberg; Bilder ur Nordens Fauna (Carl Axel Magnus Lindman)

[SK]

Mela & Cajander, 1906; Suomen Kasvio; Viides painos

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