Pieris floribunda (Mountain fetterbush)

6/17/2012 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine · ≈ 12 × 8″ (31 × 20 cm)

5/22/2010 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 1½ × 2′ (44 × 66 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Ericales	Tea, persimmon, blueberry, Brazil nut, azalea, many others
Family	Ericaceae	Heath or heather family
Genus	Pieris	Andromeda or fetterbush
Species	floribunda	From floris, “flower,” or florere, “to flower,” with the Latin adjectival suffix -bundus used in the sense of doing or action accomplished, and thus meaning “profusely flowering, producing or having produced abundant flowers”