Bailey & Bailey: Woody Plants of National Parks 181 



2. Leaves not scale-lil(C, seldom linear, \ 2 to 8 inches long. 



Leaves opposite; flowers saucer-shaped, purplish-red; found in parks of the Pacific 



coast and Rocky Mountains KALMIA, p. 184. 



Leaves alternate, flowers white, pinkish, or copper-red.- 

 Fruits dry capsules. 



Flowers with 5 separate petals. 



Flowers white, about '/2 inch across, borne in dense flat-topped clusters 



at the ends of the branches; widely distributed ....LEDUM, p. 185. 



Flowers copper-red, about I inch across, borne singly at the ends of 



the branches; occasional in the Northwest 



CLADOTHAMNUS, p. 183. 



Flowers bell-shaped, urn-shaped, or funnel-shaped. 



Flowers showy, J/'2 to 2 inches long, narrowly bell-shaped to funnel- 

 shapied, irregularly divided into 5 spreading lobes; fruits dry 



capsules; found in parks of the Pacific coast 



RHODODENDRON, p. 186. 



Flowers small, about '/4 to J/2 inch long, bell-shaped to urn-shaped. 



Evergreen shrubs with somewhat leathery leaves; capsules splitting 

 down backs of cells. 



Leaves oblong to elliptic, green above, pale or rusty below, 

 not whitish. 



Shrubs 2 to 3 feet high; leaves smooth on both sides; 



found in California parks, LEUCOTHOE, p. 187. 



Shrubs 1 to 3 feel high; leaves rusty-scurfy below; 



eastern species found on Isle Royale 



CHAMAEDAPHNE, p. 187. 



Leaves narrowly oblong to linear, mostly curled under from 



the edges, dark green above, whitish below 



ANDROMEDA, p. 188. 



Deciduous shrubs with thinnish leaves; capsules splitting at the 



partitions MENZIESIA. p. 188. 



Fruits berries or berry-like. 



Fruits with calyx remaining at base or surrounded by fleshy calyx which 

 becomes part of the fruit. 



Berries dry, with several stony seeds arctostaphvlos, p. 189. 



Berries juicy, with numerous small seeds CAULTHERIA, p. 194. 



Fruits crowned by persistent calyx-lobes. 



Slender trailing plants with appressed-bristly stems; leaves less than 



1/3 inch long; flowers white; berries white.. ..CHIOGENES, p. 196. 



Erect or trailing plants with smooth or hairy stems; leaves more than 

 1/3 inch long, or if smaller, the flowers pink; berries red or 

 purple VACCINIUM, p. 196. 



White Heather (Cas slope D. Don.) 

 Field Guide to the Species 



Leaves awl-shaped, closely appressed to the stems in 4 rows; flowers on slender 



stems J/2 to 1 inch long in the upp)er leaf -axils 1. C. Merlenstana, 



Leaves linear, spreading; flowers on very short stems at the ends of the branchlets 



2. C. Stelleriana. 



