Flora of North America species comparison

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Gaultheria humifusa

alpine spicy wintergreen, alpine teaberry, alpine-wintergreen
Habit Subshrubs, creeping, mat-forming, stoloniferous; roots adventitious or fibrous.
Stems

spreading and repent, 10–30 cm, (slender), usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous.
Leaf

blades orbiculate, ovate, or broadly elliptic, 1–2.5 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins serrulate (teeth bristle-tipped), apex obtuse or acute, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences

axillary, solitary flowers;

bracts green with reddish margins, broadly ovate, 2.5–3 mm, exceeding sepals, glabrous.
Pedicels

green, 0.5–1.5 mm, glabrous;

bracteoles 1–3, green or pink-tinged, deltate, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous.
Flowers

sepals 5, connate ca. 1/2 their lengths, red to deep pink, narrowly ovate, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, connate basally, white to pale pink, 2.5–4 mm, glabrous, corolla campanulate, lobes (spreading), 1.5–3 mm;

filaments broadest proximally, glabrous;

anthers without awns, dehiscent by terminal pores.
Fruits

red, 5–7 mm wide.

Gaultheria humifusa
Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul; fruiting Jul–Sep.
Habitat Coniferous woodlands and in moist soils along stream banks, subalpine to alpine wet meadows, rocky mountain slopes
Elevation 900-3700 m (3000-12100 ft)
Distribution
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 513.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Vaccinioideae > Gaultheria
Sibling taxa
G. hispidula, G. ovatifolia, G. procumbens, G. pyroloides, G. shallon
Synonyms Vaccinium humifusum, G. myrsinites
Name authority (Graham) Rydberg: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 300. 1900 ,
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