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Phyllodoce caerulea

Blue Heath · Blue Mountain Heath · Scottish Menziesia · Blue Mountainheath

Family EricaceaeGenus Phyllodoce

A mass of purple urn-shaped flowers on short red stalks, crowded over a mat of dark needle-like leaves.
FlowerE-190CC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
subshrubPlants of the World Online
Habit
Perennial, Shrub, SubshrubPLANTS Database
Flower
PurpleFlora of North America
Native range
Alaska, Aleutian Is., Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Finland and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Flora of North America — Flora of North America Editorial Committee; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: either

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 21 days to germinate.

82% germination in 7–21 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Phyllodoce p. 192Public domain
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Phyllodoce (Ericaceae). P. coerulea germ. 70(82% in 1-3 w). Light had no effect.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Phyllodoce p. 192. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials

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