Skye Flora

Trailing Azalea


Loiseleuria Procumbens

 

Loiseleuria Procumbens

Photo © John Birks
Dept of Biology, Univ. of Bergen
(Jul 1999 Skarsvag, Norway)

Rare on bare ground in mountains

Flower diameter c 4-5 mm.

Skye ID: Matted ground-hugging shrub with pink corolla divided about halfway into five lobes/petals.  Leaves leathery with margins turned under.

Other features: Whole plant hairless.  Calyx and young stems red.

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Loiseleuria Procumbens

Photo © John Birks
Dept of Biology, Univ. of Bergen
(Jul 1965 Abisko, Sweden)


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