Phyllodoce (plant)

Phyllodoce
Phyllodoce empetriformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Ericoideae
Tribe: Phyllodoceae
Genus: Phyllodoce
Salisb.
Species

4 to 8, see text

Phyllodoce /ˌfɪləˈds/ is a small genus of plants in the heather family, Ericaceae. They are known commonly as mountainheaths,[1] mountain heaths, or mountain heathers.[2] They are native to North America and Eurasia,[3] where they have a circumboreal distribution.[4]

  1. ^ Phyllodoce. USDA PLANTS. United States Department of Agriculture.
  2. ^ Phyllodoce. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
  3. ^ Phyllodoce. Flora of North America, Volume 8.
  4. ^ Phyllodoce. The Jepson eFlora. Jepson Herbarium, UC Berkeley.