Menziesia
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Menziesia is a genus of flowering plant
in the family Ericaceae
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Species include:
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
in the family Ericaceae
Ericaceae
The Ericaceae, commonly known as the heath or heather family, is a group of mostly calcifuge flowering plants. The family is large, with roughly 4000 species spread across 126 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants...
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Species include:
- Menziesia ciliicalyx
- Menziesia ferrugineaMenziesia ferrugineaMenziesia ferruginea is a species of flowering plant in the heath family known by several common names, including rusty menziesia, false huckleberry, and mock azalea. It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska through the Pacific Northwest to Wyoming, where it is a member of the flora...
- False azalea or Fool's huckleberry - Menziesia multiflora
- Menziesia pilosa - Minnie bush; Allegheny menziesia