Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Cassiope stelleriana (Pall.) DC. |
Bibliography | Prodr. 7: 611 (1839) |
Native Range | Kamtschatka to n. & c. Japan, Subarctic America to Washington |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | grassland and rocks |
Altitude | 0-1900m |
Description | leaves alternate, patent, linear-oblanceolate, 3-5mm, shortly petiolate, flowers solitary, terminal, 5-6mm long, corolla broadly campanulate, pedicel rigid, 3-10mm long |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | pinkish, white |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | - |
Type | subshrub |
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 |
Synonyms | Andromeda stelleriana Pall. Bryanthus stelleriana (Pall.) D.Don Erica stelleriana (Pall.) Willd. Harrimanella stelleriana (Pall.) Coville Menziesia stelleriana (Pall.) Fisch. ex Hook. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KUR Kuril Is.) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (WAS Washington) |