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Cassiope tetragona D. Don






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

Cassiope D. Don (イワヒゲ)
Arctic bell-heather, white Arctic mountain heather or Arctic white heather
Lifeform: short shrub < 20 cm in height
Distribution: high Arctic in the North America and eastern Eurasia
Habitat: dry heath and rocks on tundra (ツンドラ) → permafrost (永久凍土)
Varieties (in AK)

ssp. tetragona: widspread
ssp. saximontana (Small) Pors.: interior Alaska

Synonyms of ssp. tetragona

Andromeda tetragona L.

索引

Cassiope tetragona in Alaska


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[1/2] at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the Arctic on August 1 2006.

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