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Question: Epigaea repens L. var. glabrifolia Fern. the other variety is described as what? I am visiting a plant friend in …

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  Epigaea repens L. var. glabrifolia Fern. the other variety is described as what? I am visiting a plant friend in Escambia County FL and AL and found Epigaea repens L. but differences in leaf hairs, glands, etc. thinking it might be a different variety....grows on steep edges in sandy pine woods.

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  Deaer sjperk, good morning. Anytime there is a variety described, it automatically creates an autonym, in other words, a variety with the same epithet as the species. So Epigaea repens, when var. glabrifolia was named, also has a variety repens. These two are not considered distinct now because they grade together from essentially no hairs to abundant hairs, with no morphological gaps. Best wishes.