Phyllodoce glanduliflora - Yellow Mountain-heather

Submitted by Lori S. on Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:55

Phyllodoce glanduliflora is a common sub-shrub in this area in alpine-subalpine settings:

The name "glandulifera" is well-deserved - the flower stems and the outsides of the flowers are densely glandular-hairy, as visible in the following photo, and even the leaves are finely glandular-hairy:

In seed:

A nice tract growing amongst alpine willows:

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