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|accepted_name=Phyllodoce caerulea
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Babington
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Man Brit. Bot.,
|place=194. 1843 ,
}}
|common_names=Purple mountain heather;phyllodoce bleue
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Andromeda caerulea
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae;Phyllodoce;Phyllodoce caerulea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Phyllodoce]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Phyllodoce caerulea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 476
|treatment_page=page 477
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>prostrate to ascending or erect, diffusely branched, often matlike, 5–25 cm. <b>Leaves</b> spreading, imbricate; blade linear to spatulate, 4–10 × 1–1.3 mm, margins finely glandular-serrulate, abaxial surface glabrous or glandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbellate, 1–6-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> 10–30 mm, glandular; bracteoles 2. <b>Flowers</b> nodding; sepals linear to lanceolate, 3–4 mm, margins not ciliate, glandular abaxially; corolla purple, urceolate, constricted at mouth, 4–9 mm, glandular, lobes recurved, ca. 1 mm; stamens 8–10, included; filaments 3–3.5 mm, glabrous; anthers 1.2–1.5 mm; ovary globose, 2–2.5 mm, glandular; style included, 4–5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 5-valved, globose, 2.5–3.5 mm, glandular. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Rocky tundra, early-melting alpine snowbeds
|elevation=0-700(-1800) m
|distribution=Greenland;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Alaska;Maine;N.H.;n Europe;e Asia (Japan;Russian Far East).
|discussion=<p><i>Phyllodoce caerulea</i> hybridizes with <i>P. aleutica</i>.</p>
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name=Phyllodoce caerulea
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Babington
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Andromeda caerulea
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Rocky tundra, early-melting alpine snowbeds
|elevation=0-700(-1800) m
|distribution=Greenland;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Alaska;Maine;N.H.;n Europe;e Asia (Japan;Russian Far East).
|reference=None
|publication title=Man Brit. Bot.,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_932.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Ericoideae
|genus=Phyllodoce
|species=Phyllodoce caerulea
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