| Arctostaphylos uva-tirsi (L.) Spreng. | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Uva-ursi uva-ursi (L.) Britt., Arbutus uva-ursi L., Uva-ursi procumbens var. uva-ursi | ||
| Common name | kinnikinnick, mealberry | ||
| Description | Trailing, matted dwarf shrub with long, flexible branches; leaves obovate to spat- ulate, coriaceous, flat in margin, lustrous above, indistinctly veined; stem more or less densely puberulent; corolla urceolate, white to pink; fruit dull red, dry and mealy, with stone consisting of several nutlets. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, sandy places. Described from northern Europe and Canada. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. pacifica Hult., with larger, elliptic to elliptic-cuneate leaves, red bracts, and red corolla with purple lobes, occurs along the southern coast. |
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.