United States of America, Idaho, Blaine, Sawtooth Mts., head of Alpine Cr. drainage, saddle on SW ridge of Snowyside Peak
43.93338 -114.976048 NAD27
7.5' Snowyside Peak quad; 11 0662456 4866248
2926 meters
9600 FT
Idaho batholith (Cretaceous) quartz diorite, monzonite, grandiorite. Among rocks above treeline on fellfield ridge & E facing slope with common associates Ivesia gordonii, Eriogonum ovalifolium var. nivale, E. pyrolifolium, Carex proposita, Juncus parryi, Macronema discoidium.
diffusely & tightly branched shrub; occasional locally but abundant ground cover in subalpine forest.
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Jennifer Ackerfield, Head Curator of Biodiversity Collections (jennifer.ackerfield@botanicgardens.org)