genus Lyonia

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genus Lyonia - evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the HimalayaLyoniadilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbsEricaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family - heathersLyonia mariana, stagger bush, staggerbush - deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stockhe-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, maleberry, privet andromeda - deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowersfetter bush, Lyonia lucida, shiny lyonia, fetterbush - showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel