Herbarium Label


  • Herbarium ID: SSMF
  • Accession Number: 002760
  • Scientific Name: Epigaea repens L.
  • Family Name: Ericaceae
  • Location: Top of Lake Superior cliffs, near Jackson Island, Prince Twp., Ontario.
  • District Located: Algoma
  • Longitude/Latitude: 84.55W / 46.55 N
  • Habitat: Common in dry acid soil under partial shade, but never abundant. Growing in partially shaded western slope in thin soil over tock at top of lake cliffs near island.
  • Notes: Small colony in full flower with pink and pinkish to white corollas.
  • Collector: S.T.B. Losee
  • Collection Number: 1856
  • Collection Date: 05/03/1969
  • Determined by: C.E.G.
  • Annotation by: [no data]