Japan Flora: Stems creeping, the plants matted, 2-5 cm. high; leaves thickish, mostly terminal on the branches, obovate to broadly so, 3-7 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded, with prominently impressed veinlets on upper side, serrulate. puberulent at base of the midrib on upper side, pale green and glabrous beneath, the petioles winged; flowers white; corolla about 4 mm. long, pilose inside; drupe glabrous, black, 7-8 mm. in diameter. June-July. Dry alpine slopes;  

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rather rare. Kuriles, Sakhalin.  Siberia, Europe, and N. America.