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Purple Mountainheath

Phyllodoce breweri (A. Gray) Heller

Comprehensive Description

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Phyllodoce breweri (A. Gray) A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 1-: 1. 1900
Bryanthus Breweri A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 367. 1868.
Plants 30 cm. tall or less, usually tufted; leaf -blades linear, usually narrowly so, 6-21 mm, long, obtuse, serrulate, often obscurely so; pedicels numerous, finely pubescent; calyx about 10 mm. wide; lobes ovate to oblong; corolla rose-purple, nearly campanulate, about 8 mm. long, the lobes about as long as the tube; stamens exserted; filaments much longer than the anthers, glabrous; capsules spheroidal, 3-3.5 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: High Sierras of CaUfornia.
Distribution: Mountains of California.
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John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Phyllodoce breweri

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Phyllodoce breweri is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae known by the common names purple mountain heath and Brewer's mountain heather.

It is native to California, where it can be found in mountain ranges including the southern Cascade Range, the San Bernardino Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada, its distribution extending into Nevada. It grows in rocky subalpine mountain habitat, such as slopes and meadows.

Description

Phyllodoce breweri is a matlike shrub with many short stems lined densely with leathery evergreen needlelike leaves.

The inflorescence is a cluster of several flowers toward the ends of the stems, with some flowers occurring below in leaf axils. The bright purple-pink flowers are cup-shaped as the petals are fused except for the very tips, which roll under. At the center of the flower is a yellow ovary and ten long, protruding stamens tipped with large anthers.

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Phyllodoce breweri: Brief Summary

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Phyllodoce breweri is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae known by the common names purple mountain heath and Brewer's mountain heather.

It is native to California, where it can be found in mountain ranges including the southern Cascade Range, the San Bernardino Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada, its distribution extending into Nevada. It grows in rocky subalpine mountain habitat, such as slopes and meadows.

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