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Mountain Azalea
Rhododendron periclymenoides
34.5628, -84.2476
Field Notes
Description:
This was not a typical shrub azalea seen in residential and commercial landscapes in Atlanta, GA. This was a tree with long skinny flowers on the ends of the branches growing towards the sun. The plant/tree was growing out of the side of the mountain and there was a trunk.
Habitat:
The stairs along the falls at Amicalola Falls State Park, Chattahoochee National Forest, 418 Amicalola State Park Rd, Dawsonville, GA 30534-1003, USA
Notes:
"Rhododendron periclymenoides, (Pinxterflower) is a deciduous shrub native to the eastern United States. Flowers appear before the leaves expand. It ranges from New Hampshire to Georgia and Alabama and are relatively frequent though widely scattered along streams, in deciduous forests and woodlands. The ranges of Mountain Azalea (R. canescens) and Woolly Azalea (R. prinophyllum) overlap with the range of this species.
Rhododendron periclymenoides make wonderful landscape plants but all parts of the plant are toxic."-Wikipedia
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