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|accepted_name=Gaultheria humifusa
|accepted_authority=(Graham) Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|place=1: 300. 1900 ,
}}
|common_names=Alpine spicy wintergreen
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Vaccinium humifusum
|authority=Graham
|rank=species
|publication_title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|publication_place=11: 193. 1831
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gaultheria myrsinites
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae;Gaultheria;Gaultheria humifusa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gaultheria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gaultheria humifusa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 512
|treatment_page=page 513
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> creeping, mat-forming, stoloniferous; roots adventitious or fibrous. <b>Stems</b> spreading and repent, 10–30 cm, (slender), usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades orbiculate, ovate, or broadly elliptic, 1–2.5 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins serrulate (teeth bristle-tipped), apex obtuse or acute, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers; bracts green with reddish margins, broadly ovate, 2.5–3 mm, exceeding sepals, glabrous. <b>Pedicels</b> green, 0.5–1.5 mm, glabrous; bracteoles 1–3, green or pink-tinged, deltate, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, connate ca. 1/2 their lengths, red to deep pink, narrowly ovate, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous; petals 5, connate basally, white to pale pink, 2.5–4 mm, glabrous, corolla campanulate, lobes (spreading), 1.5–3 mm; filaments broadest proximally, glabrous; anthers without awns, dehiscent by terminal pores. <b>Fruits</b> red, 5–7 mm wide.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul; fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Coniferous woodlands and in moist soils along stream banks, subalpine to alpine wet meadows, rocky mountain slopes
|elevation=900-3700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
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name=Gaultheria humifusa
|authority=(Graham) Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Gaultheria myrsinites
|basionyms=Vaccinium humifusum
|family=Ericaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Jul; fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Coniferous woodlands and in moist soils along stream banks, subalpine to alpine wet meadows, rocky mountain slopes
|elevation=900-3700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_1001.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae
|genus=Gaultheria
|species=Gaultheria humifusa
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