Japan Flora: Branches wiry and elongate, prostrate, glabrous or slightly puberulent; leaves thick, spreading, narrowly obovate-oblong or broadly oblanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, very obtuse, upper side flat, lustrous, deep green, glabrous, sessile; flowers solitary and terminal, ebracteate, the pedicels 3-5 mm. long, puberulent; calyx lobes obovate-oblong, about 2.5 mm. long, coriaceous, deciduous in fruit, rounded, reddish, glabrous; corolla 4-5 mm. long; capsules globose, about 3.5 mm. in diameter. July-Aug. Dry rocky slopes, alpine;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr.); rare. Kuriles, Kamchatka, and N. America.