Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cassiope saximontana Small, sp. nov
Shrub mostly 1-2 dm. tall, with more slender branches than C. tetragona; leaf-blades narrowly ovoid, 4-5 mm. long, usually acute or acutish, puberulent when young, grooved on the back; pedicels about as long as the leaves in anthesis; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, obtuse or acutish; corolla 3.5-4 mm. long, the lobes half-orbicular; stamens less than 2 mm. long; capsules ovoid, about 3 mm. long.
Type collected in open woods near the summit of Sulphur Mountain near Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 18, 1899, W. G. McCalla 2161 (Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Alberta.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
