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yellow mountain heather

purple mountain heather

Habit Plants erect to decumbent, 10–35 cm, much branched and often matted.
Stems

younger branches glandular-pubescent; older branches glabrous.

Leaves

overlapping, generally curving upward, becoming straight with maturity, 4–12 × 1–2 mm;

margins revolute, glandular-serrulate;

surfaces abaxially grooved and glandular, adaxially glabrous to glandular.

Inflorescences

1–9-flowered;

pedicels ? 3 cm, glandular.

Flowers

sepals narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 2.5–4 mm, lobed nearly to base, glandular-pubescent abaxially;

margins not ciliate;

corollas narrowly urceolate;

petals 5–8 mm, white to yellow to yellowish green, glandular;

lobes reflexed, 1–2 mm;

stamens included;

filaments 2–3 mm, pubescent;

anthers 1–1.5 mm;

styles included, 3–5 mm.

Fruits

globose; ~3 mm in diameter, glandular.

2n

=24.

Phyllodoce glanduliflora

Phyllodoce breweri

Distribution
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Discussion

Cliffs and subalpine to alpine slopes. Flowering Jul–Aug. 300–3000 m. BW, Casc. WA; north to AK, east to WY. Native.

See comments for Phyllodoce empetriformis.

Phyllodoce breweri has been reported from Douglas County. More investigation is needed to confirm its presence. Phyllodoce breweri is similar to P. empetriformis but has exserted rather than included stamens.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 632
Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2
Sibling taxa
P. breweri, P. empetriformis
P. empetriformis, P. glanduliflora
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