Japan Flora: Evergreen decumbent much-branched shrub 10-25 cm. high, with puberulent densely leafy branchlets; leaves linear, 7-12 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. wide, abruptly obtuse, minutely toothed, glabrous, grooved on upper side, the midrib raised and white-puberulent beneath; flowers 2^5, nodding, the pedicels 2-2.5 cm. long, glandular-pilose and loosely puberulent; calyx-lobes narrowly ovate, purplish, about 4 mm. long, densely glandular-pilose, 的pecialty toward the base on back; corolla urceolate, 7-8 mm. long, purplish, loosely glandu- lar-puberulent externally, or glabrous. July-Aug. Alpine;

Hokkaido, Honshu (n. distr.). Northern or Arctic regions of the N. Hemisphere.