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Epigaea repens
Arbutus Ar"bu*tus, Arbute Ar"bute, n. [L. arbutus, akin to arbor tree.] The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epig[ae]a repens), having white or usually rose-colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. --Gray.

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- Epigaea is a small genus of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. The species are small creeping shrubs that are typically anywhere from 10 to 20 cm...
- Epigaea repens, the mayflower, trailing arbutus, or ground laurel, is a low, spreading shrub in the family Ericaceae. It is found from Newfoundland to...
- Epigaea asiatica is a species of Epigaea from ****an. Seeds are dis****d by ants. Epigaea asiatica is an evergreen shrub up to 0.1 m (0 ft 4 in) by 0...
- Epigaea gaultherioides is a species of flowering plant in the Ericaceae family. It is native to Transcaucasia and Turkey. Epigaea gaultherioides is an...
- Phyllophaga epigaea is a species of scarab beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in North America. "Phyllophaga epigaea Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
- Syngrapha epigaea, the pirate looper moth or narrow silver Y, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe...
- Firebush) * Empetrum (Crowberry) Enkianthus (Pagoda Bush) Ephedra (Ephedra) Epigaea (Trailing Arbutus) Erica (Heath) Eriobotrya (Loquat) * Escallonia (Escallonia)...
- in the genera Epigaea, Arctostaphylos and Gaultheria were formerly classified in Arbutus. As a result of its past classification, Epigaea repens (mayflower)...
- been naturalized throughout the temperate climatic world. The "Mayflower" Epigaea repens is a North American harbinger of May, and the floral emblem of both...
- (1877) mention among the Potawatomi doodems (clans) being: They regard Epigaea repens as their tribal flower and consider it to have come directly from...