Japan Flora: Small glabrous, glaucous shrub, 10-30 cm. high, the ascending stems sparingly branched; leaves broadly linear to oblong-lanceolate, 1.5- 3.5 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, acute, very short-petiolate, with recurved margins, glaucous beneath; corolla 5-6 mm. long, the pedicels erect, 1-2 cm. long, slender, usually reddish; capsules 3-4 mm. across, ovate-globose. May-July. Bogs;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.). Widely distributed in the cooler regions of the N. Hemisphere.