Japan Flora: Much-branched shrub with red-brown, nearly terete, obtusely striate branchlets; leaves obovate, 2.5-6 cm. long, 12-20 mm. wide, rounded to very obtuse and mucronate, subcuneate at base, glabrous or slighdy ciliate while young, the petioles 1-2 mm. long; racemes 3- to 8-flowered, 6-10 cm. long, inclusive of the peduncles, puberulous, the bracts elliptic or obovate, green and foliaceous, 5-10 mm. long, rounded to very obtuse; flowers greenish white; sepals acute or obtuse, slightly ciliolate; petals oblong, recurved, 8-10 mm. long.  July-Aug. High moun­tains;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); common northw.