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Purple mountainheath

Phyllodoce breweri

Also called Brewer's Mountain Heather, Purple Heather, Purple Mountain Heath, Purple Mountain Heather, Red Mountainheather

Purple mountainheath
Photo: Merrie Freed, Public domain
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
California to Nevada
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

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.

Other Phyllodoce plants

Blue mountainheath · Pink mountainheath · Mountainheath

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phyllodoce breweri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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