Cassiope hypnoides, (L.) D. Don

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 8

2. C. hypnoides (L.) D. Don , loc. cit. (1834)

( Harrimanella hypnoides (L.) Coville ).

Stems 5-15 cm, procumbent, branched, forming a mat. Leaves 2-4 mm, alternate, linear-oblong, acute, not sulcate, erecto-patent or loosely appressed, sometimes somewhat secund, minutely ciliate but otherwise glabrous. Flowers terminal; pedicel 7-10 mm in flower, slightly longer in fruit, puberulent. Sepals 2 mm, crimson, with scarious margin. Corolla 4-5 mm, broadly campanulate to hemispherical, white. Capsule c. 3 mm. 2n = 32. By streams, or in damp, mossy tundra, usually in late snow-patches. Arctic Europe, Iceland, mountains o f Fennoscandia. Fe Is No Rs (N) Sb Su.