Harrimanella

Harrimanella is a genus of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, with a single species, Harrimanella hypnoides, also known as moss bell heather or moss heather.

[1] H. hypnoides is a cold hardy dicot perennial that produces moss-like cushions, about 5 centimetres (2 inches) high, often of prostrate stems with ascending shoot tips.

Borne singly on short reddish pedicels, the bell-shaped flowers are conspicuous and white with five fused petals and five sepals.

The specific epithet hypnoides means 'like Hypnum', a genus of mosses.

It can be found growing on rock crevices in the Canadian arctic, Quebec, the Northeastern United States, Greenland,[2] Iceland, the mountains of Norway, Sweden and Finland, Svalbard and arctic Russia, including the Ural Mountains.