Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers from a plant found in

from a plant found in northern Georgia

and often into winter where frost stays away

a little larger in flower and reliably free-blooming

and birds strip the dark fruits in autumn and sow them about

Chamaedaphne calyculata Conifers from a plant found inLeatherleaf is the quiet constant of the northern bog. Chamaedaphne calyculata, the only species in the genus, is a low, thicket forming evergreen of the heath family that ranges right around the cold northern world, from the peatlands of North America east to the bogs of Finland and Japan, and southward in this country to the pocosins and acid bogs of the coastal plain, as far as South Carolina. Across that vast range, leatherleaf forms the dense,