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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Ericaceae (ツツジ科) > Cassiope tetragona
Cassiope D. Don (イワヒゲ)Arctic bell-heather, white Arctic mountain heather or Arctic white heatherLifeform: 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 Andromeda tetragona L. |
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[1/2] at Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the Arctic on August 1 2006.