General:
Low, mat-forming shrub; stems decumbent or ascending, 5-25 cm long, rounded or slightly angled, minutely hairy.
Leaves:
Alternate, evergreen, leathery, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped, 6-15 mm long, 2-9 mm wide, rounded to shallowly notched at tips, shiny green above, pale with brownish or black stalked glands beneath, margins entire to slightly toothed, somewhat rolled under; nearly unstalked.
Flowers:
One to several in short, terminal clusters; flower stalks with 1-2 bracts below the flower, glandular; corollas pinkish, bell-shaped, 4-6 mm long, 4-lobed to the middle; calyces deeply lobed, the lobes persistent in fruit; filaments hairy; anthers awnless, prolonged into long tubes.
Fruits:
Berries, globe-shaped, 6-10 mm wide, bright red; edible but rather acid.
Flower Colour:
White
Blooming Period:
Summer
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Red
Present from Summer to Fall
Source: The USDA
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
919 | 6 | 2150 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
12 | 0 | 173 |
Aspect (degrees) |
324 | 0 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 0 | 8 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
B | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
2008 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
BWBS | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(77), BWBS(1073), CWH(137), ESSF(111), ICH(13), MH(3), MS(4), SBPS(6), SBS(83), SWB(281) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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