Phyllodoce glanduliflora |
Phyllodoce aleutica |
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yellow mountain-heath, yellow mountain-heather |
Aleutian Mountain heath, Aleutian Mountain heather |
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Habit | Plants prostrate or ascending to erect, branched, 2–4 dm; young branches glandular, older branches glabrous. | Plants ascending or erect, branched, 1–2.5 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. |
spreading, not imbricate; blade linear, 4–12 × 1–1.1 mm, margins serrulate, surfaces often glandular. |
Inflorescences | corymbiform, 1–16-flowered. |
umbellate or corymbiform, 1–14-flowered. |
Pedicels | 10–35 mm, densely stipitate-glandular; bracteoles 2. |
10 mm, 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. |
nodding; sepals linear to linear-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm, margins ciliate, glandular-hairy abaxially; corolla yellow or yellowish green, urceolate, constricted at mouth, 5–8 mm, glabrous, lobes reflexed, ca. 1 mm; stamens 9–10, included; filaments 1.5–2 mm, glabrous; anthers brown on drying, 0.3–0.5 mm; ovary globose, 1.5–2 mm, glandular-hairy; style included, 2–3 mm. |
Capsules | 5-valved, globose, 2.5–4 mm, densely glandular. |
5-valved, broadly ovoid, 3–4 × 2.5–3.5 mm, glandular-hairy. |
2n | = 24. |
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Phyllodoce glanduliflora |
Phyllodoce aleutica |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Moist subalpine to alpine slopes | Tundra heaths and snowbanks |
Elevation | 900-3500 m [3000-11500 ft] | 0-1700 m [0-5600 ft] |
Distribution |
AK; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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AK; e Asia
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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.) |
E. Hultén (1941–1950, vol. 8) reported hybrids between Phyllodoce aleutica and P. caerulea from the Aleutian Islands, and between P. aleutica and P. granduliflora from the Alaska mainland. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 478. | FNA vol. 8, p. 476. |
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Synonyms | Menziesia glanduliflora, P. aleutica subsp. glanduliflora | Menziesia aleutica |
Name authority | (Hooker) Coville: Mazama 1: 196. 1897 , | (Sprengel) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 1: 1. 1900 , |
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