Phyllodoce empetriformis |
Phyllodoce caerulea |
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Klamath Mountain heather, pink mountain-heath, pink mountain-heather |
Blue Mountain heath, phyllodoce bleue, purple mountain heather, purple mountain-heath |
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Habit | Plants prostrate to erect, diffusely branched, 0.5–5 dm; young branches sparsely glandular. | Plants prostrate to ascending or erect, diffusely branched, often matlike, 5–25 cm. |
Leaves | ascending, densely imbricate; blade linear, 4–15 × 1–1.5(–2) mm, margins entire or glandular-serrulate, surfaces usually glabrous. |
spreading, imbricate; blade linear to spatulate, 4–10 × 1–1.3 mm, margins finely glandular-serrulate, abaxial surface glabrous or glandular. |
Inflorescences | corymbiform, 1–14-flowered. |
umbellate, 1–6-flowered. |
Pedicels | 5–25 mm, glandular; bracteoles 2. |
10–30 mm, glandular; bracteoles 2. |
Flowers | usually erect; sepals broadly ovate, 2–3 mm, margins ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla pink, campanulate, not constricted at mouth, 5–8 mm, not glandular, lobes spreading, 1.5–2.5 mm; stamens 10, included; filaments 1.5–3 mm, glabrous; anthers 1.5–2.5 mm; ovary broadly ovoid, 1.5–2 mm, glandular; style exserted, 5–7 mm. |
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, 3–4 mm, glandular. |
5-valved, globose, 2.5–3.5 mm, glandular. |
2n | = 24. |
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Phyllodoce empetriformis |
Phyllodoce caerulea |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Moist subalpine and alpine slopes | Rocky tundra, early-melting alpine snowbeds |
Elevation | 1400-3500 m [4600-11500 ft] | 0-700(-1800) m [0-2300(-5900) ft] |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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AK; ME; NH; MB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; Greenland; n Europe; e Asia (Japan, Russian Far East)
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Discussion | Hybrids between Phyllodoce empetriformis and P. glanduliflora are encountered occasionally where the two species occur together. The hybrids, P. ×intermedia (Hooker) Rydberg, consisting largely of first-generation crosses (F1 progeny), have a decidedly intermediate floral morphology, combining glandular, mostly nonciliate sepals more than 3 mm long and pinkish, cylindric to ovoid corollas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Phyllodoce caerulea hybridizes with P. aleutica. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 478. | FNA vol. 8, p. 477. |
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Synonyms | Menziesia empetriformis | Andromeda caerulea |
Name authority | (Smith) D. Don: Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 160. 1834 , | (Linnaeus) Babington: Man Brit. Bot., 194. 1843 , |
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