| Phyllodoce empetrifermis (Sm.) D. Don | |||
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| Family | Ericaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Bryanthus empetriformis (Sm.) Gray., Menziesia empetriformis Sm. | ||
| Description | Matted dwarf shrub; young twigs finely puberulent, more or less glandular, gla- brescent in age; leaves needlelike, shiny, glabrous or sparsely glandular, with revo- lute margin; pedicels puberulent and glandular, brown; calyx lobes ovate, purplish- margined, finely ciliated with multicellular, short hairs; corolla open, bell-shaped, with recurved lobes, purple; filaments glabrous; ovary glandular. | ||
| Ecology | Mountainsides, up to 2,000 meters. Described from the northwest coast of North America. | ||
| 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.