Im not familiar with this species and I can't find records for an alba form, but I've read that it frequently hybridizes with the closely related, white flowered Phyllodoce glanduliflora. Could it be a hybrid?

Anything is possible, but there were no glandulifera that i could find for miles. Cassiope was common tho.

How peculiar 🤔

Indeed. And if you have really never seen it, you must make an excursion. in the millions, it smells wonderful.

Sure. It would be interesting to know if it was a common variant somewhere.

I made a post asking if anyone had encountered a white version of Phyllodoce empentriformis, but noone commented on it. Maybe there are references to a white one in the logs of the botanists who have studied it in the past?

Perhaps. Thanks for looking into it for me!