MOUNT RAINIER 



Phyllodoce empetriformis (Smith) D. Don. 



The common red-flowered heather, abundant on dryish slopes 

 at 5,000 to 6,000 feet elevation. 



Phyllodoce glanduliflora (Hooker) Coville. 



Much like the preceding, but the flowers yellowish-white and 

 glandular. Frequent at 6,500 to 7,500 feet elevation. 



Cassiope mertensiana (Bongard) Donn. 



A low shrub growing with Phyllodoce empetriformis, and having 

 small pendent, bell-shaped white flowers. 



Harrimanella stelleriana (Pallas) Coville. 



On the moist cliff's overlooking the Nisqually Glacier, at 5,500 feet 

 elevation. This is the southernmost known station for the plant. 



Gaultheria shallon Pursh. 



The salal-berry is reported by Gorman to occur in coniferous 

 woods between Longmire Springs and Paradise Park. 



Gaultheria ovatifolia Gray. 



This species resembles a diminutive plant of the preceding, but 

 the berries are red and spicy, and borne singly in the axils of the 

 leaves. Abundant in the coniferous woods at 3,000 to 3,500 feet 

 elevation. 



Gaultheria humifusa (Graham) Rydberg. 



Much like a small plant of the preceding species, and only an 

 inch or two high. Not rare on the slopes near Sluiskin Falls. 



Rhododendron albiflorum Hooker. 



(Cladothamnus campanulatus Greene). 



The white-flowered azalea so common in the shelter of trees 

 at 5,000 to 5,500 feet elevation. 



Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Linnaeus. 



The kinnikinnik, essentially a lowland plant, covers the rocks 

 at 8,000 feet altitude near Nisqually Glacier. 



Arctostaphylos nevadensis Gray. 



On the gravel bars of the Nisqually at Longmire Springs. 



Vaccinium macrophyllum (Hooker) Piper. 



The most valuable of all the native huckleberries. Easily 

 recognized by the nearly black, not glaucous berries, and finely 

 serrate leaves. Plentiful at 3,000 to 4,000 feet altitude. 



Vaccinium ovalifolium Smith. 



Much like the preceding, but taller, the leaves entire, and the 

 glaucous black berries not nearly so sweet. 



Vaccinium myrtillus microphyllum Hooker. 

 (V . scoparium Leiberg.) 



A low, broom-like species, with small leaves and red or wine- 

 colored berries. On dry ridges, 4,000 to 5,000 feet altitude. 



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