Red fruit bearberry

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Arctous alpinus (L.) Niedenzu var. ruber Rehder et E. H. Wilson

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

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Arctous (A. Gray) Nied. (ウラシマツツジ)

Lifeform: deciduous shrub > 20 cm tall
Habitat: fellfields in alpine zones
var. alpina
Distribution: boreal regions between Europe and North America
var. japonicus (Nakai) Ohwi
= Arctostaphylos alpinus (L.) Spreng. var. japonicus (Nakai) Hultén
Urashimatsutsuji (ウラシマツツジ)
Distribution: circumpolar at high latitudes, including the alpine zones of Japan
Synonyms:

Arctous alpinus (L.) Nied. ssp. japonicus (Nakai) Sugim.

Arctous japonicus Nakai

var. ruber Rehder et E. H. Wilson
= Arctostaphylos rubra (Rehder et E. H. Wilson) Fernald
Akamino-urashimatsutsuji (アカミノウラシマツツジ, 赤実ノ裏縞躑躅), red fruit bearberry
Distribution: Sichuan (sporadic) - eastern Siberia - Alaska - northern Canada
Habitat: arctic and alpine tundra
Synonyms

Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) Spreng. var. rubra (Rehder et Wilson) Bean
Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) Spreng. ssp. rubra (Rehder et Wilson) Hultén

Arctous ruber (Rehder et Wilson) Nakai

Arctous alpina in Alaska

var. ruber

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[1-3] at Mile Post 308 along Dalton Highway, interior Alaska, on August 2 2014.