Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Phyllodoce breweri (A.Gray) A.Heller |
Synonyms | Bryanthus breweri A.Gray |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1200-3500m |
Description | leaves crowded symmetrically around branchlets, sessile, linear, acute, dark shiny green, flowers openly campanulate in long terminal racemes |
Size | 15-20cm |
Color | bluish red |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | - |
Type | decumbent shrub |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
Territory |
Northern America
Southwestern U.S.A. (California , Nevada) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ERICACEAE
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