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|accepted_name=Cassiope
|accepted_authority=D. Don
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|place=17: 157. 1834 ,
}}
|common_names=Mountain heather
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Cassiopoideae;Cassiope
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Cassiopoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cassiope]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek mythological Cassiope, wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 376
|treatment_page=page 446
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>decumbent to prostrate, spreading, ascending, or erect, mat-forming, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade canoe-shaped, without abaxial groove, or dorsiventrally expanded by marginal outgrowths forming abaxial groove, margins entire, thin or scarious, surfaces glabrous or glandular or hairy. <b>Pedicels</b> erect with deflexed tip at anthesis, elongating (or not) and straight in fruit; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals ± distinct, oblong-ovate; filaments not enlarged at base; anthers with awns; ovary subglobose to ovoid; style cylindric; stigma capitate. <b>Capsules</b> borne on erect pedicels, subglobose to ovoid. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;n Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 18 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades grooved on abaxial surface.
|[[Cassiope tetragona|Cassiope tetragona]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades not grooved on abaxial surface
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade margins not scarious, without curled hairs at leaf tips.
|[[Cassiope mertensiana|Cassiope mertensiana]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blade margins conspicuously scarious, with curled hairs at leaf tips (at least on young leaves).
|[[Cassiope lycopodioides|Cassiope lycopodioides]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cassiope
|author=Gary D. Wallace
|authority=D. Don
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|distribution=North America;n Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Edinburgh New Philos. J.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Cassiopoideae
|genus=Cassiope
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