DCHP-3

woolly Labrador tea

Rockies
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1955 quote.

See: Labrador tea(def. 1a)

Quotations

1953
Woolly Labrador tea is perhaps most widespread . . . with bearberry a close second.
1955
The most widespread flowering shrub in Canada is in all probability that known as Labrador Tea. There are two varieties of this plant but the one best known in the Canadian Rockies is that known as Woolly Labrador tea, the glossy leaves having a rusty-red wool on the underside.