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Extremely variable dwarf evergreen to semi-evergreen shrubs, sometimes deciduous.  The small elliptic to obovate leaves are densely covered with brown scales.  The flattened bell-shaped flowers (late spring to early summer) are quite variable in color, ranging from white or yellow to pink, red or purple, often with darker spots.  An unusual species for a sunny position with late season, small but attractive flowers.  Extremely widespread and common in the wild, ranging from the eastern Himalaya to SW China.  It occurs in a wide variety of sunny, well-drained habitats from 8,000 to 16,000 ft.

1975/024  ‘Copse Belt’  (0).  Light pink flowers spotted reddish brown.

1978/078  U. Bangor Exp.:UBC BG  (3-4).  wc, Nepal.

1978/079  Nepal U. Bangor Exp.:UBC BG  (+5).  From seed collected in Nepal, an evergreen form of this variable dwarf with white flowers (May-June).

1979/050  'Reuthe's Purple'  GLER  (0).  An award form with bright purple flowers on a plant with low habit.  AM 1967.

1979/053  Berg  (-5\R2\4).  A large-leafed, vigorous form collected wild on Mt. Everest in Nepal.  This clone said to have “purple flowers” but I have not recorded any data on this clone.

1979/054  WEB  (-5\R1\4).  This yellow-flowered, small-leaved clone collected wild on Mt. Everest in Nepal.

1981/009  Schick  (-5\R2\4).  This very dwarf, yellow-flowered, small-leafed clone collected wild at 13,800 ft. in Bhutan.

1982/167  H#303-JH  (+5).  Propagated from a plant found in Milke Donda, Nepal at 11,500 ft.  Lavender flowers.

1982/168  (lepidotum var. minutiforme)  H#372-JH  (0).  Propagated from a plant found in Milke Donda, Nepal at 13,000 Ft.

1984/090  King & Paton  (+5).  Yellow flowers.