PLANTS Profile for Cassiope tetragona (white arctic mountain heather)

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Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don
white arctic mountain heather

Symbol:

CATE11

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Ericaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Subshrub
Shrub

Native Status:

L48		N
AK		N
CAN		N
GL		N

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R.A. Howard. ©Smithsonian Institution. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Richard A. Howard Photograph Collection. Usage Requirements. Any use of copyrighted images requires notification of the copyright holder.

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Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don

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Distribution:
Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don


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See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AK, MT, WA), CAN (AB, BC, LB, NT, NU, QC, YT), DEN (GL)

Related Taxa:
Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don

View 35 genera in Ericaceae, 3 species in Cassiope or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Distribution of Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don var. saximontana (Small) C.L. Hitchc.. .

Cassiope tetragona var. saximontana
white arctic mountain heather

Distribution of Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don var. tetragona. .

Cassiope tetragona var. tetragona
white arctic mountain heather

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Dilleniidae
Order	Ericales
Family	Ericaceae – Heath family
Genus	Cassiope D. Don – mountain heather
Species	Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don – white arctic mountain heather

Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don

Nat. Ind.

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Reg. 0

Reg. A

Reg. C

Reg. H

FACU,FACU+

FACU+

FACU

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Cassiope tetragona (L.) D. Don

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 23535.

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View 1 propagation protocol from Native Plants Network.

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

Time Generated: 01/03/2013 06:17 PM CST