Phyllodoce empetriformis(Sm.) D.Don

pink mountainheath

WFO wfo-0001046882 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by Hilary Rose Dawson
fig. a Hilary Rose Dawson, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-24 / obs. 153039665
Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by J Straka
fig. b J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154258356
Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. c Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150557739
Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by John Brew
fig. d John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152844635
Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by Allison Gray
fig. e Allison Gray, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149724813
Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by Eric Habisch
fig. f Eric Habisch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147086077
Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by J Straka
fig. g J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149959959
Phyllodoce empetriformis, photographed by J Straka
fig. h J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151885568

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 789 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 789 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bryanthus empetriformis (Sm.) A.Gray
  • Menziesia empetriformis Sm.
  • Menziesia grahamii Hook.
  • Phyllodoce grahamii (Hook.) Nutt.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.