mountain andromeda

Pieris floribunda is a bushy shrub growing to around 0.9 to 1.8 metres (3 to 6 ft) high with oval shiny, leathery leaves which are normally evergreen, but may shed in a harsh winter to brown and persist until spring. It has erect or erect with just slightly nodding panicles of white urn-shaped flowers that form in autumn as erect pink buds. The brown, dry fruit is a slightly angled globular capsule about 10 millimetres (1⁄2 in) long in autumn and persisting until late April. The gray-brown bark is shaggy and peeling when mature.

Pieris floribunda is native to the eastern United States, primarily the southern Appalachian Mountains in the States of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and West Virginia. It thrives in areas of land disturbed by human activity. In common with other members of Pieris, it grows better on well drained soils.