Zenobia pulverulenta (Dusty Zenobia)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Zenobia pulverulenta, photographed by Austin Pursley — fig. a Austin Pursley, CC0 1.0 / 2020-05-17 / obs. 109498556

Zenobia pulverulenta, photographed by Tom Field — fig. b Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201548430

Zenobia pulverulenta, photographed by Scott Ward — fig. e Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196270681

Zenobia pulverulenta, photographed by Alan Weakley — fig. f Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28275435

Zenobia pulverulenta, photographed by Alpha Wolf — fig. h Alpha Wolf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65529797

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Zenobia pulverulenta, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Georgia	GEO	NORTHERN AMERICA
North Carolina	NCA
South Carolina	SCA
Virginia	VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 22 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 cassinefolia Vent.
Andromeda cassinefolia var. pulverulenta (W.Bartram) Vent.
Andromeda condida Dippel
Andromeda dealbata Lindl.
Andromeda glauca K.Koch
Andromeda nuda Voss
Andromeda ovata Sol. ex DC.
Andromeda pulverulenta W.Bartram ex Willd.
Andromeda pulverulenta W.Bartram
Andromeda pulverulenta var. nuda (Vent.) C.K.Schneid.
Andromeda serratifolia DC.
Andromeda speciosa Michx.
Andromeda speciosa var. nitida Michx.
Andromeda speciosa var. pulverulenta (W.Bartram) Michx.
Zenobia cassinefolia (Vent.) Pollard
Zenobia dealbata D.Don ex Steud.
Zenobia pulverulenta f. nitida (Michx.) Fernald
Zenobia pulverulenta f. nuda (Vent.) Fernald
Zenobia pulverulenta f. pulverulenta
Zenobia pulverulenta var. nuda (Vent.) Rehder
Zenobia speciosa (Michx.) D.Don
Zenobia speciosa var. pulverulenta (W.Bartram ex Willd.) Ashe

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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