Phyllodoce glanduliflora |
Phyllodoce breweri |
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yellow mountain-heath, yellow mountain-heather |
Brewer's Mountain heather, purple mountain heath, purple mountain heather |
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Habit | Plants prostrate or ascending to erect, branched, 2–4 dm; young branches glandular, older branches glabrous. | Plants decumbent, branched, 1–4 dm; young branches densely glandular. |
Leaves | spreading, ± imbricate; blade linear, 4–12 × 1–2 mm, margins densely glandular-serrulate, surfaces glabrous or glandular. |
spreading, not imbricate; blade linear, 5–20 × 1–2 mm, margins entire or finely serrulate, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | corymbiform, 1–16-flowered. |
spikelike, 8–30-flowered. |
Pedicels | 10–35 mm, densely stipitate-glandular; bracteoles 2. |
10–15 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 narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 3–4.5 mm, margins ciliate distally, glabrous abaxially; corolla white, pink, or purplish, campanulate, not constricted at mouth, 7–9 mm, not glandular, lobes recurved, 3–4 mm; stamens 9–10, exserted; filaments 5–8 mm, ciliate proximally; anthers purple, 1.5–2.5 mm; ovary globose, 1–2 mm, densely glandular; style exserted, 6–8 mm. |
Capsules | 5-valved, globose, 2.5–4 mm, densely glandular. |
5-valved, globose, 3–3.5 mm, glandular-hairy. |
2n | = 24. |
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Phyllodoce glanduliflora |
Phyllodoce breweri |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Moist subalpine to alpine slopes | Subalpine meadows and rocky slopes |
Elevation | 900-3500 m [3000-11500 ft] | 1200-3500 m [3900-11500 ft] |
Distribution |
AK; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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CA; NV
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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.) |
Phyllodoce breweri is known from California and Nevada, where it occurs in the high Cascade range, the high Sierra Nevada, and the San Bernadino Mountains. (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 glanduliflora, P. aleutica subsp. glanduliflora | Bryanthus breweri |
Name authority | (Hooker) Coville: Mazama 1: 196. 1897 , | (A. Gray) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 1: 1. 1900 , |
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