Japan Flora: Prostrate shrub with ascending branches 10-25 cm. long, with reddish brown gland-tipped hairs; stems slender, woody at base; leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, 4- 10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, abruptly cuspidate, cordate, ciliate, deep green and lustrous on upper side, the petioles 5-20 mm. long; racemes terminal, 1-2 cm. long, nodding, the bracts and bracteoles 8-10 mm. long, chartaceous, acuminate, ascending, the pedicels short, short-pilose; calyx-lobes chartaceous, narrowly ovate, acuminate, 7-8 mm. long, glabrous, ciliolate; corolla tubular-campanulate, pale roseate, about 10 mm. long; styles minutely puberulous; capsules about 1 cm. in diameter, short-papillate-hairy. Apr-May. Open woods in mountains;

Hokkaido (sw. distr.), Honshu. The fruit is edible.