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Labrador tea plant 
either of two closely related evergreen shrubs, Ledum groenlandicum and L. decumbens var. palustre.
See also: Labrador tea (def. 1a)
- 1821 (1823) Not being able to find any tripe de roche, we drank an infusion of the Labrador tea plant (ledum palustre) and ate a few morsels of burnt leather for supper.
- 1858 (1863) . . . the bottom of it [was] occupied by an extensive morass overgrown with scrubby pines, and the Labrador Tea plant.
- 1869 The Labrador tea plant might also be found to be a not unacceptable luxury.
- 1821 (1823) Not being able to find any tripe de roche, we drank an infusion of the Labrador tea plant (ledum palustre) and ate a few morsels of burnt leather for supper.