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Range: southern Nevada to western Colorado, central New Mexico, and extreme western Texas. Habitat: sandy or gravelly soil in deserts, arid grassland, or among piñon and juniper.

Range: across much of Canada; south to northeastern California, southern Utah, central New Mexico, Kansas, and Iowa. Habitat: commonly in moist meadows and prairies or on cool brushy slopes.

Range: southeastern California and southern Utah to Oklahoma; south to Mexico. Habitat: open areas in deserts, arid grassland, and piñon and juniper woodland.

Range: Southern California to southwestern Oregon. Habitat: moist places, in open areas, near the coast, otherwise where partly shaded.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
The genus name comes from the Greek rhodon (which means "Rose"), and dendron (which means "tree").

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
This species does not produce the spectacular brilliant flowers that many of its relatives do, yet its dainty clusters of mildly citrus-scented white flowers and bright green leaves are delightful.

Range: Alaska to Northern California, Idaho, and Colorado. Habitat: open rocky slopes or in forests high in the mountains.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
As with many shrubby species in this family, Trapper's Tea is poisonous. Range: British Columbia; south to the Sierra Nevada of California, northeastern Oregon, central Idaho, and northwestern Wyoming. Habitat: wet places in the mountains.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
Leaves, in spite of the name, are not to be used as a seasoning as they are suspected of being poisonous.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
The berries are a source of food for wildlife, and were once also eaten by coastal Indians. The leaves are often used in floral arrangements.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
The white flowers, somewhat star-like, may have inspired the genus name of this plant, for in Greek mythology, Cassiopeia was set among the stars as a constellation.

Kinnikinnick, an Indian word for many tobacco substitutes, is most frequently applied to this species, which also had many medicinal uses. In Greek, arctos means "bear", and staphyle "bunch of grapes", whereas in Latin uva is "grape" or "grapes", and ursus is "bear". The berries are indeed eaten by bears, as the name redundantly indicates.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
The genus name, Greek for "dewy", refers to the moist, glistening drops on the leaves, to which small organisms stick. Longer-stalked glands near the edge of a leaf slowly bend inward, securing and placing an entrapped organism in the digestive area of stalkless glands.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
Dipascus, presumably coming from the Greek word dipsa, meaning "thirst", refers to the water accumulated in the cup-like bases of joined leaves.

Information from "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers":
The name comes from the Greek erion (which means "wool") and phoros (which means "bearing"). The slender bristles or "cotton" are actually modified sepals and petals of minute flowers. There are several similar species.

Range: South-central Texas to Southern Oklahoma. Habitat: along draws and on rocky slopes in deserts.

Range: Southern California to eastern Colorado; east to Missouri; south into Mexico. Habitat: open areas on plains and deserts.

Range: southern Arizona to western Texas; south to Mexico. Habitat: sand dunes, gravelly flats, and slopes.

Range: across northern North America; south in the mountains to Southern California, Nevada, Utah, and northern New Mexico. Habitat: open areas in high mountains.

Range: southern Oregon to the southern Sierra Nevada. Habitat: Rocky slopes at moderate to high elevations.