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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) > Loiseleuria procumbens
Loiseleuria Desv. (ミネズオウ)One species in the genusMinezuou (ミネズオウ, 峰蘇芳), alpine azalea Life form: prostrate, evergreen shrub < 20 cm tall Distribution: (sub)arctic regions and high mountains of the northern hemisphere, including Japan (north to central Honshu) Habitat: fellfields → alpine plants in Japan |
Fruit: septicidal capsule, containing many seeds Chromosome number: 2n = 24 Synonyms:
Azalea procumbens L. f. watanabeana Yanagita (ツマキミネズオウ) |
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[1-3] at Mile Ppost 308 along Dalton Highway, interior Alaska, on August 2 2014.