Cassiope hypnoides
Harrimanella hypnoides, also known as Moss bell heather, is a plant in the family Ericaceae. Sometimes it's also called Cassiope hypnoides but Harrimanella hypnoides is the accepted name at ITIS.
The plant is cold hardy dicot perennial found growing on rock crevasses in the Canadian arctic, Quebec, and the Northeastern United States.
It is currently listed as a threatened species.
(Wikipedia)
The Heather family is quite large and includes many plants that like cold, frosty areas. Two representatives of genus Cassiope, which includes about a dozen species, that grow in Finland are moss heather and cassiope (C. tetragona). Moss heather is actually so unique that it is sometimes classified in its own genus Harrimanella. The species are not particularly close to each other and it is highly unlikely that they could ever be confused with each other.
Moss heather is quite common in some parts of the fell area, but it is hardly noticeable outside its flowering time. Its shoots look like moss, even to the extent that when it is not flowering it is hidden completely in the fell’s moss vegetation. Real mosses never flower, however, and when it is blooming moss heather is one of Finland’s most beautiful fell plants with its white, relatively large flowers.
(www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/moss-heather)
In Baima Snow Mountain nature reserve, Yunnan, China.
Cassiope hypnoides
Harrimanella hypnoides, also known as Moss bell heather, is a plant in the family Ericaceae. Sometimes it's also called Cassiope hypnoides but Harrimanella hypnoides is the accepted name at ITIS.
The plant is cold hardy dicot perennial found growing on rock crevasses in the Canadian arctic, Quebec, and the Northeastern United States.
It is currently listed as a threatened species.
(Wikipedia)
The Heather family is quite large and includes many plants that like cold, frosty areas. Two representatives of genus Cassiope, which includes about a dozen species, that grow in Finland are moss heather and cassiope (C. tetragona). Moss heather is actually so unique that it is sometimes classified in its own genus Harrimanella. The species are not particularly close to each other and it is highly unlikely that they could ever be confused with each other.
Moss heather is quite common in some parts of the fell area, but it is hardly noticeable outside its flowering time. Its shoots look like moss, even to the extent that when it is not flowering it is hidden completely in the fell’s moss vegetation. Real mosses never flower, however, and when it is blooming moss heather is one of Finland’s most beautiful fell plants with its white, relatively large flowers.
(www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/moss-heather)
In Baima Snow Mountain nature reserve, Yunnan, China.