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Cassiope mertensiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Cassiope
Species:	C. mertensiana
Binomial name
	Cassiope mertensiana; (Bong.) G. Don

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Cassiope mertensiana is a species of flowering plant known by the common names western moss heather and white mountain heather.

This heather is native to subalpine areas of western North America, from Alaska to the mountains of California. It is a small, branching shrub which forms patches along the ground and in rocky crevices.

Description

Cassiope mertensiana has short, erect, snakelike stems that are covered in tiny leathery scalelike leaves only a few millimeters long. From between the layers of scale leaves emerge reddish pedicels each bearing a petite, hanging, down-facing, bell-shaped flower. The bractlets are red and the contrasting flower is white.

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-'''''Cassiope mertensiana''''' is a species of flowering plant known by the common names '''western moss heather''' and '''white mountain heather'''. This heather is native to [[subalpine]] areas of western North America, from Alaska to the mountains of California. It is a small, branching shrub which forms patches along the ground and in rocky crevices. The short, erect, snakelike stems are covered in tiny leathery scalelike leaves only a few millimeters long. From between the layers of scale leaves emerge reddish  [[pedicel (botany)|pedicels]] each bearing a petite, hanging, down-facing, bell-shaped flower. The [[bract]]lets are red and the contrasting flower is white.
+'''''Cassiope mertensiana''''' is a species of flowering plant known by the common names '''western moss heather''' and '''white mountain heather'''.
+This heather is native to [[subalpine]] areas of western North America, from Alaska to the mountains of California. It is a small, branching shrub which forms patches along the ground and in rocky crevices.
+==Description==
+''Cassiope mertensiana'' has short, erect, snakelike stems that are covered in tiny leathery scalelike leaves only a few millimeters long. From between the layers of scale leaves emerge reddish  [[pedicel (botany)|pedicels]] each bearing a petite, hanging, down-facing, bell-shaped flower. The [[bract]]lets are red and the contrasting flower is white.
 [[Image:Cassiope mertensiana 9200.JPG|left|thumb|The white flower contrasts with the red bractlets.]]
-{{commons}}
 ==External links==
+{{commonscat inline|Cassiope mertensiana|'''Cassiope mertensiana'''}}
-*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?3449,3550,3551 Jepson Manual Treatment]
+*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?3449,3550,3551 Jepson Manual Treatment: ''Cassiope mertensiana'']
 *[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CAME7 USDA Plants Profile]
-*[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Cassiope+mertensiana Photo gallery]
+*[http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Cassiope+mertensiana ''Cassiope mertensiana'' — U.C. Photo gallery]
 [[Category:Ericaceae]]
+[[Category:Flora of Alaska]]
+[[Category:Flora of Western Canada]]
+[[Category:Flora of the Northwestern United States]]
+[[Category:Flora of California]]
+[[Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)]]
+{{-}}
 {{Ericaceae-stub}}