Phyllodoce caerulea |
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Blue Mountain heath, phyllodoce bleue, purple mountain heather, purple mountain-heath |
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Habit | Plants prostrate to ascending or erect, diffusely branched, often matlike, 5–25 cm. |
Leaves | spreading, imbricate; blade linear to spatulate, 4–10 × 1–1.3 mm, margins finely glandular-serrulate, abaxial surface glabrous or glandular. |
Inflorescences | umbellate, 1–6-flowered. |
Pedicels | 10–30 mm, glandular; bracteoles 2. |
Flowers | nodding; sepals linear to lanceolate, 3–4 mm, margins not ciliate, glandular abaxially; corolla purple, urceolate, constricted at mouth, 4–9 mm, glandular, lobes recurved, ca. 1 mm; stamens 8–10, included; filaments 3–3.5 mm, glabrous; anthers 1.2–1.5 mm; ovary globose, 2–2.5 mm, glandular; style included, 4–5 mm. |
Capsules | 5-valved, globose, 2.5–3.5 mm, glandular. |
2n | = 24. |
Phyllodoce caerulea |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Rocky tundra, early-melting alpine snowbeds |
Elevation | 0-700(-1800) m (0-2300(-5900) ft) |
Distribution |
AK; ME; NH; MB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; Greenland; n Europe; e Asia (Japan, Russian Far East)
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Discussion | Phyllodoce caerulea hybridizes with P. aleutica. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 477. |
Parent taxa | Ericaceae > subfam. Ericoideae > Phyllodoce |
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Synonyms | Andromeda caerulea |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Babington: Man Brit. Bot., 194. 1843 , |
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