Japan Flora: Small evergreen ascending or decumbent shrub 10-30 cm. high, forming dense mats; branches densely leafy, puberulent; leaves linear, 8-14 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. wide, flattened, abruptly obtuse, sessile, glabrous, grooved on upper side, minutely toothed, the teeth glandular while young, the midrib beneath elevated and white-puberulent; flowers 4-7, nodding, the pedicels 2.5-4 cm. long, puberulent and glandular-pilose; calyx-lobes broadly lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, densely glandular-pilose especially toward the base on back; corolla urceolate, 7-8 mm. long, glabrous, pale yellowish green. July-Aug. Wet alpine slopes;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rather common especially on Japan Sea side. Sakhalin, Kuriles, Kamchatka, and Alaska.