Chamaedaphne calyculata(L.) Moench

leatherleaf

WFO wfo-0000599524 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. a Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 204741239
Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. b Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205022863
Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. c Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203320904
Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. d Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201848528
Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Pierre Cartier
fig. e Pierre Cartier, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203190741
Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201964874
Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Katie Kucera
fig. g Katie Kucera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204121114
Chamaedaphne calyculata, photographed by Bruce Cook
fig. h Bruce Cook, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201671873

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Flowering n = 1,577 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,577 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Andromeda angustifolia Pursh
  • Andromeda calyculata L.
  • Andromeda calyculata var. angustifolia Aiton
  • Andromeda calyculata var. anomala Vent.
  • Andromeda calyculata var. latifolia Aiton
  • Andromeda calyculata var. nana G.Lodd.
  • Andromeda calyculata var. ventricosa Aiton
  • Andromeda crispa Poir.
  • Cassandra angustifolia (Aiton) G.Don
  • Cassandra angustifolia var. anomala (Vent.) DC.
  • Cassandra calyculata (L.) D.Don
  • Cassandra calyculata var. angustifolia A.Gray
  • Cassandra calyculata var. latifolia F.Seym.
  • Cassandra calyculata var. nana (G.Lodd.) Bean
  • Chamaedaphne calyculata subsp. nana (Lodd.) A.P.Khokhr.
  • Chamaedaphne calyculata var. angustifolia (Aiton) Rehder
  • Chamaedaphne calyculata var. latifolia (Aiton) Fernald
  • Chamaedaphne calyculata var. nana (Lodd.) Rehder
  • Chamaedaphne crispa (Poir.) Spach
  • Exolepta calyculata Raf.
  • Hydragonum calyculatum (L.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.