Harrimanella hypnoides |
Harrimanella |
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moss bell heather, moss-plant |
harrimanella, moss-heather, mossplant |
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Habit | Subshrubs small; branches prostrate, spreading, or ascending, mat-forming. | |||||
Stems | forming loose mats; branches lax, tips barely, if at all ascending. |
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Leaves | loosely appressed; blade linear to subulate, 2–3 × 0.5–0.8 mm, (ciliolate), apex acute. |
densely crowded on stems; petiole very short, leaving small pegs on stem when leaves fall off; blade linear-oblong to subulate, margins entire or erose, surfaces glabrous. |
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Pedicels | (deep red), 0.7–1.5 cm, 3+ times longer than leaves at anthesis. |
nodding in flower, erect in fruit, slender; bracteoles absent. |
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Flowers | erect; sepals ovate, ca. 2 mm; corolla white, ca. 4 × 3 mm, lobes distinct for ca. 1/2 their lengths, tips not recurved; stamens to 1.5 mm. |
sepals distinct or connate basally, ovate to oblong-ovate; petals connate ca. 1/2 their lengths, white or tinged with pink, apex blunt; stamens not exserted; filaments swollen at base; anthers inverted at anthesis, with awns; ovary globose to ovoid; style ovoid or conic; stigma simple. |
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Capsules | 2–3.5 mm diam. 2n = 32, 48. |
borne on erect pedicels, globose to ovoid, dehiscent basipetally. |
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x | = 16. |
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Harrimanella hypnoides |
Harrimanella |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | |||||
Habitat | Damp, sheltered places in tundra at lower elevations, and in alpine or subalpine meadows, often in damp soil where snow drifts form | |||||
Elevation | 50-1900 m (200-6200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
ME; NH; NY; NL; NT; NU; QC; Greenland; n Europe
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North America; n Europe; n Asia |
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Discussion | Harrimanella hypnoides has not been collected in New York state in more than a century and is presumed extirpated there. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Species 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 495. | FNA vol. 8, p. 494. | ||||
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Harrimanelloideae > Harrimanella | Ericaceae > subfam. Harrimanelloideae | ||||
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Synonyms | Andromeda hypnoides, Cassiope hypnoides | |||||
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Coville: Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 3: 575. (1901) | Coville: Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 3: 570, figs. 62, 66. 1901 , | ||||
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