Japan Flora: Decumbent much-branched evergreen shrub; branches 4-angled, very slender, densely leafy; leaves scalelike, deep green, appressed to the branches and branchlets, ovate, 1.5-2 mm. long, obtuse, with inflexed byaline margins, convex on the back; flowers solitary, axillary, 6- merous, nodding or pendulous, pink, the pedicels 1.5-3 cm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, about 2 mm. long, obtuse, with hyaline margins; corolla about 8 mm. long, urceolate-campanulate; capsules globose, about 3 mm. in diameter, erect. July. Alpine rock-cliffs and crevices;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.). Kuriles, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and n. Pacific regions.