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wild tea
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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either of two closely related evergreen shrubs, Ledum groenlandicum and L. decumbens var. palustre.
See: Labrador tea(def. 1a)
Quotations
1929
The Silent Land produces valuable medicinal plants in great variety. The wild tea found there was in common use by both natives and Hudson's Bay Company men before the imported article was obtained.
1938
The plains are carpeted with the profuse blossom of the wild tea, whose velvety-pointed leaf brings comfort by many a camp fire.