This section is from the book "Field Book Of Western Wild Flowers", by Margaret Armstrong. Also available from Amazon: Field Book Of Western Wild Flowers.
Much like the last, but the nodding flowers are smaller and not quite so pretty, with bell-shaped corollas and the stamens not protruding. It forms beautiful patches of bright purplish-pink color on mountainsides, up to eleven thousand feet, farther north than the last.

Red Heather-P. Breweri. Red Heather-P. empetriformis. Yellow Heather- Phyllodoce glanduliflora. WINTERGREEN FAMILY. Pyrolaceae.
 
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