Plants prostrate to erect, diffusely branched, 0.5-5 dm; young branches sparsely glandular. Leaves ascending, densely imbricate; blade linear, 4-15 × 1-1.5(-2) mm, margins entire or glandular-serrulate, surfaces usually glabrous. Inflorescences corymbiform, 1-14-flowered. Pedicels 5-25 mm, glandular; bracteoles 2. Flowers usually erect; sepals broadly ovate, 2-3 mm, margins ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous; corolla pink, campanulate, not constricted at mouth, 5-8 mm, not glandular, lobes spreading, 1.5-2.5 mm; stamens 10, included; filaments 1.5-3 mm, glabrous; anthers 1.5-2.5 mm; ovary broadly ovoid, 1.5-2 mm, glandular; style exserted, 5-7 mm. Capsules 5-valved, globose, 3-4 mm, glandular. Flowering Jul-Aug. Moist subalpine and alpine slopes; 1400-3500 m; Alta., B.C., N.W.T., Yukon; Ariz., Calif., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash., Wyo. Hybrids between Phyllodoce empetriformis and P. glanduliflora are encountered occasionally where the two species occur together. The hybrids, P. ×intermedia (Hooker) Rydberg, consisting largely of first-generation crosses (F₁ progeny), have a decidedly intermediate floral morphology, combining glandular, mostly nonciliate sepals more than 3 mm long and pinkish, cylindric to ovoid corollas.

Plant: Shrub, generally matted, glabrous to glandular, generally rhizomed; stem decumbent, rooting, rough from persistent, decurrent leaf bases Leaves: alternate, crowded, < 5 mm wide, linear, needle-like, evergreen, leathery; margin strongly rolled under; lower surface channeled INFLORESCENCE: flowers solitary in axils of leaf-like bracts, ± clustered near stem tip; bractlets 2; pedicels jointed to flower Flowers: sepals 5, < 2.5 mm, fused at base; petals 5, ± 4/5 fused, urn- to cup-shaped, pink to rose-purple, tube < 5 mm, lobes < 2 mm; stamens generally 10, anthers elongate, dehiscent by short separate slits, unawned, filaments < 2 X anthers; ovary superior, chambers 5 Fruit: Fruit: capsule, septicidal, dehiscent tip to base; Seeds many per chamber, narrowly winged Misc: Moist slopes, meadows, subalpine; 1450-2650 m.