Menziesia ferruginea
Fool's Huckleberry

Family: Ericaceae (Heath family)

Photo taken at Stevens Pass, moist shaded woods

Flowers:

corolla 6 to 10 mm, cylindric to urn-shaped, yellowish-green to pinkish

Fruit:

capsule 5 to 8 mm wide, many seeds per chamber

Leaves:

1.5 to 6 cm long, ovate-elliptic to elliptic-obovate; alternate; deciduous

Plant:

stems sprawling or erect, less than 4 meters tall; twigs often glandular-hairy

Habitat:

coniferous woods

Distribution of species:

Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains

Distribution of genus:

7 species: temperate Asia and the Americas except Australia