PLANT: Shrubs openly branching and forming open colonies from woody rhizomes, 10– 40 cm tall; branches bright green, glabrous, sharply angled, flexuous. LEAVES: simple, ovate to elliptic, 1–4 cm long, 7–16 mm wide, thin, glabrous or with scattered glandular hairs; tips acute. INFLORESCENCE: solitary in leaf axils of current year’s growth. FLOWERS: 2–4 mm long; sepals glabrous, the lobes none to obscure; corollas white or pink; filaments glabrous; anthers awned. FRUITS: berries, 5–9 mm wide, blue or blue-black. 2n = 24, 48. NOTES: Mixed coniferous and spruce-fir forest, hillsides, openings: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Graham cos. (Fig. 1D); 2400–3400 m (7900–11,000 ft); Jun–Jul; se AZ and NM, n to Can., temperate Northern Hemisphere. REFERENCES: John L. Anderson , 2008, Vascular Plants of Arizona: Ericaceae. CANOTIA 4 (2): 21–30.