Blue mountain heath

Phyllodoce caerulea

  • Blue mountain heath
  • Blue mountain heath
  • Blue mountain heath
  • Blue mountain heath
  • Blue mountain heath
  • Blue mountain heath
  • Blue mountain heath
  • Blue mountain heath
  • Flower name
    Blue mountain heath
  • Scientific name
    Phyllodoce caerulea
  • Alias蝦夷の栂桜, エゾツガザクラ, Blue mountain heath, blue heath
  • Place of originalpine zone of the northern hemisphere
  • Place of floweringHigh mountain
  • Flowering seasonJuly, August

What is Blue mountain heath

Blue mountain heath , scientific name:Phyllodoce caerulea, is an evergreen creeping of small shrub in the family Ericaceae native to alpine zone of the northern hemisphere. In Japan it lives in the rocky terrain of the high mountains of Hokkaido. Summer, from branches to extend umbels, with dark pink Tip 5 lobed with urn-shaped florets give the few stem.

Blue mountain heath, scientific name:Phyllodoce caerulea, also known as: ezotsugazakra, Blue mountain heath, blue heath, origin: Northern Hemisphere high mountain range and Habitat: Hokkaido-Tohoku, living type: alpine rock, tree height: 5-15 cm, stem color: Brown, leaf color: green, leaf length: 1 cm,:0.2cm leaf width, leaf shape: linear, Leaf: serrated with, leaves, leaf arrangement: alternate, flowering: July-August the flowers long:0.8~1.2cm, flower color: dark pink, rose: pot-in Tip 5 lobed, flowers of branches in which more of needled, stamens number: 10, ovary: 5 rooms, Calyx 5 available deep lobed, Calyx color: dark reddish brown, floral, Corolla and calyx: glandular hairs


  • Order
    Ericales
  • Family
    Ericaceae
  • Genus
    Phyllodoce
  • Species
    P.caerulea
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Scattered inflorescence/ umbrella shape
  • Petal shape
    Vase-shaped
  • Leaf type
    Linear
  • Edge of the leaf
    Serrated
  • Life typeEvergreen undershrub
  • Flower colorsPink
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height5.0 ~ 15.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower0.8 ~ 1.2 cm

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