Phyllodoce |
Phyllodoce glanduliflora |
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mountain heather, mountain-heath |
yellow mountain-heath, yellow mountain-heather |
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Habit | Shrubs. | Plants prostrate or ascending to erect, branched, 2–4 dm; young branches glandular, older branches glabrous. | ||||||||||||||||
Stems | spreading to erect, (much-branched); young branches usually glandular-hairy, older branches glabrous or puberulent, (roughened peglike projections remaining after fall of leaves, exfoliating). |
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Leaves | persistent, alternate; petiole present; blade coriaceous, margins entire, serrulate, or glandular-serrulate, (appearing revolute, abaxial surface less than 1/3 visible). |
spreading, ± imbricate; blade linear, 4–12 × 1–2 mm, margins densely glandular-serrulate, surfaces glabrous or glandular. |
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Inflorescences | terminal, umbellate, corymbiform, or spikelike clusters, 2–30-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary; perulae absent. |
corymbiform, 1–16-flowered. |
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Pedicels | 10–35 mm, densely stipitate-glandular; bracteoles 2. |
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Flowers | bisexual, radially symmetric, sepals 5, connate basally; petals 5, connate for 1/2+ their lengths, corolla deciduous, urceolate, campanulate, or cylindric; stamens (8–)10, included or exserted; anthers not awned, dehiscent by terminal slits; ovary 5-locular; style included or exserted; stigma capitate. |
often nodding; sepals ovate to lanceolate, 3–4 mm, margins not ciliate, densely glandular abaxially; corolla yellow or greenish yellow, urceolate, constricted at mouth, 5–8 mm, glandular, lobes reflexed, 1–2 mm; stamens 9–10, included; filaments 2.5–3 mm, hairy; anthers 1–1.5 mm; ovary ovoid, 2–2.5 mm (3.5 mm wide), glandular; style included, 3–4.5 mm. |
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Fruits | capsular, broadly ovoid to globose, dehiscence basipetally septicidal. |
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Capsules | 5-valved, globose, 2.5–4 mm, densely glandular. |
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Seeds | 100+, ellipsoid, narrowly winged, not tailed; testa smooth. |
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x | = 12. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Phyllodoce |
Phyllodoce glanduliflora |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Moist subalpine to alpine slopes | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 900-3500 m (3000-11500 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
North America; Eurasia |
AK; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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Discussion | Species 8 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Phyllodoce glanduliflora hybridizes with P. aleutica and with P. empetriformis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 476. | FNA vol. 8, p. 478. | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Menziesia glanduliflora, P. aleutica subsp. glanduliflora | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Salisbury: Parad. Lond. 1: plate 36. 1806 , | (Hooker) Coville: Mazama 1: 196. 1897 , | ||||||||||||||||
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