Ericaceae: Wildflowers of the Heath Family. Pictures and help with wildflower Identification from Thomas J. Elpel, author of Botany in a Day. The easy way to identify flowers.

Plants of the Heath Family

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. Kinnikinnick. Humbug Spires Wilderness Study Area. Near Butte, Montana.	Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. Kinnikinnick. Humbug Spires Wilderness Study Area. Near Butte, Montana.
Ledum glandulosum. Labrador Tea. Near Glacier National Park. Montana.	Phyllodoce empetriformis. Pink Mountain Heather. Pine Creek Lake. Absaroka Mountains. Near Livingston, Montana.
Kalmia microphylla. Western Bog Laurel. Tobacco Root Mountains, near Pony, Montana.	Orthilia secunda. One-Sided Wintergreen. Tobacco Root Mountains, near Pony, Montana.
Menziesia ferruginea. False Huckleberry. Tobacco Root Mountains. Near Pony, Montana.	Menziesia ferruginea. False Huckleberry. Tobacco Root Mountains. Near Pony, Montana.
Vaccinium scoparium. Dwarf Huckleberry or Grouseberry. Tobacco Root Mountains. Pony, Montana.	Vaccinium spp. Huckleberry. Near Hungry Horse Reservoir. Montana.
Vaccinium membranaceum. Huckleberry. Lava Lake Trail. Near Bozeman, Montana.	Vaccinium membranaceum. Huckleberry. Lava Lake Trail. Near Bozeman, Montana.
Vaccinium occidentale. Western Bog Blueberry. Yellowstone National Park.	Botany in a Day

-Also see these West Coast members of the Heath Family-

Vaccinium parviflorum Red Huckleberry. Photographed along the northern California coast. This species grows along the coast all the way north to Alaska.
Vaccinium parviflorum Red Huckleberry. Close-up.
Vaccinium ovatum California Huckleberry. Photographed along the northern California coast.
Gaultheria shallon Salal. Photographed along the Oregon-California coast. We made a delicous pie of salal berries while camped at a state park..

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Heath Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.

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