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Cassiope D. Don

Varpiot Tunturisuokukat Moss-heather Moss-bush Cassiope
Cassiope, Biota of North America Program (query database) [BONAP]
Cassiope, Den Virtuella Floran [DVF]
Cassiope ; [FPN, 348]
Cassiope (Ericaceae) ; [GNSP]

Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don

Liekovarpio Nelisärmäinen suokukka Cassiope Kantjljung
Cassiope tetragona ; [RK, 209]; [FPN, 343]
Andromeda tetragona ; [SK, 450]

1158x910 (~92Kb) Finland, Kilpisjärvi, 29.7.2004, Photo © Harri Arkkio

Foodplant for Clossiana chariclea chariclea, C. polaris, Zygaena exulans

C. t. var. tetragona

C. t. var. saximontana (Piper) Hitchc.

Cassiope tetragona ssp. saximontana (Small); Porsild

Cassiope mertensiana (Bong.) G. Don

mountains (Alaska - California) - Rocky Mountains, Nevada. See [About maps] Western Moss-heather Mertens' Mountain-heather
Andromeda mertensiana;
Andromeda cupressina;
Cassiope mertensiana ; [FPN, 342]

500x705 (~58Kb) USA: Washington Pass, North Cascades Highway, (48°31'47N 120°39'27W), Okanogan Co., WA, 28.7.1999, Photo © Markku Savela Cassiope mertensiana ssp. mertensiana det. Gary D. Wallace

C. m. var. mertensiana

Alaska - Oregon

C. m. var. gracilis (Piper) Hitchc.

NE.Oregon - Idaho, Montana

Cassiope hypnoides (L.) D. Don

Sammalvarpio Sammalenmuotoinen suokukka Matted Cassiope Mossljung
Harrimanella hypnoides (L.); Coville
Cassiope hypnoides ; [RK, 209]; [GMBOT, 634]
Andromeda hypnoides ; [SK, 450]

730x928 (~106Kb) Finland, Kilpisjärvi, 25.7.2004, Photo © Harri Arkkio

992x797 (~94Kb) Finland, Kilpisjärvi, 26.7.2004, Photo © Harri Arkkio

Cassiope stelleriana (Pall.) DC.

Alaska - Washington (Cascades). See [About maps] Alaska Cassiope Alaska Moss-heather Alaska Bell-heather
Harrimanella stelleriana (Pall.); Coville
Cassiope stelleriana ; [FPN, 342]

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automaticly generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BONAP]

A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; A data base interface; BONAP U.S. Checklist - 1998; Provided by TAMU-BWG; Texas A & M Bioinformatics Working Group; Based on; Biota of North America Program

[DVF]

Den Virtuella floran; http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/welcome.html; Ett projekt vid Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden).; Even for non-Swedish speaker, the distribution maps on species are nice (map buttons "Norden" and "Norra halvklotet")

[FPN]

Hitchcock & Cronquist, 1998; Flora of the Pacific Northwest (11th ed.); ISBN 0-295-95273-3

[GMBOT]

Robinson, Benjamin L., Fernald, Merrit Lyndon, 1908; Gray's New Manual of Botany (7th edition); A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada; American Book Company

[GNSP]

Wielgorskaya, 1995; Dictionary of generic names of seed plants

[Harri Arkkio]

Finland

[RK]

Hämet-Ahti, L., Suominen, J., Ulvinen, T. & Uotila, P. (eds), 1998; Retkeilykasvio (Field Flora of Finland); Ed. 4. 656 pp.; Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museum. Helsinki

[SK]

Mela, A. J., Cajander, A. K., 1906; Suomen Kasvio; Viides painos

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