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mountain-heathers
Phyllodoce
Phyllodoce /ˌfɪləˈdoʊsiː/ is a small genus of plants in the heather family, Ericaceae. They are known commonly as mountainheaths, mountain heaths, or mountain heathers. They are native to North America and Eurasia, where they have a circumboreal distribution.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first

pink mountainheath
speciesPhyllodoce empetriformis

Purple Mountain-heath
speciesPhyllodoce breweri

Blue Mountain-heath
speciesPhyllodoce caerulea

Yellow Mountain-heath
speciesPhyllodoce glanduliflora

Aleutian heather
speciesPhyllodoce aleutica

hybrid mountain-heath
hybridPhyllodoce × intermedia

Phyllodoce nipponica
speciesPhyllodoce nipponica

Phyllodoce aleutica × caerulea
hybridPhyllodoce aleutica × caerulea

Phyllodoce × alpina
hybridPhyllodoce × alpina
Phyllodoce deflexa
speciesPhyllodoce deflexa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52132.