| Cassiope mertensiana (Bong.) D. Don | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Andromeda mertensiana Bong. | ||
| Description | Matted dwarf shrub; leaves in 4 distinct rows, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, concave above, keeled on back, with two impressions at base; pedicels short, glabrous or puberulent; sepals reddish, ovate, more or less erose; corolla bell-shaped, white to pinkish. | ||
| Ecology | Mountain slopes to at least 1,300 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | (See color section. ) |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.