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yellow mountain-heath, yellow mountain-heather

Habit Plants prostrate or ascending to erect, branched, 2–4 dm; young branches glandular, older branches glabrous.
Leaves

spreading, ± imbricate;

blade linear, 4–12 × 1–2 mm, margins densely glandular-serrulate, surfaces glabrous or glandular.

Inflorescences

corymbiform, 1–16-flowered.

Pedicels

10–35 mm, densely stipitate-glandular;

bracteoles 2.

Flowers

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.

Capsules

5-valved, globose, 2.5–4 mm, densely glandular.

2n

= 24.

Phyllodoce glanduliflora

Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Moist subalpine to alpine slopes
Elevation 900-3500 m (3000-11500 ft)
Distribution
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AK; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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Discussion

Phyllodoce glanduliflora hybridizes with P. aleutica and with P. empetriformis.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 8, p. 478.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Ericoideae > Phyllodoce
Sibling taxa
P. aleutica, P. breweri, P. caerulea, P. empetriformis
Synonyms Menziesia glanduliflora, P. aleutica subsp. glanduliflora
Name authority (Hooker) Coville: Mazama 1: 196. 1897 ,
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