Bog Rosemary

BOG ROSEMARY


The Bog Rosemary, Scientifically known as Andromeda polifolia. Now this is not the kind of rosemary you cook with, because every part of this evergreen shrub is not edible. Bog Rosemary is in Greenland to Alaska, Canada, Idaho and all the way to New Jersey. They grow in peat bogs because the roots can stay cool and like full to partial sun with some shade. Bog Rosemary has a thin stem that grows to be about 20 cm tall and has thin long spiky dark green leaves, which turn purplish in the winter. The bell like white-pinkish flower blooms in spring.
Not many animals eat the bog Rosemary, But moose on the Kenai peninsula have been known to munch on this shrub.






http://www.daytonnursery.com/encyclopedia/trees_shrubs/Andromeda.htm
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Andropo.htm
http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/andpol/all.html#DISTRIBUTION%20AND%20OCCURRENCE