Alpine Bearberry
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| Image:Alpine bearberry in Varrio Nature Reserve, Finland.jpg Arctostaphylos alpina | ||||||||||||||
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| Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) Spreng. |
Alpine Bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina) is a procumbent shrub 10-30 cm high. Leaves not winter green, but dead leaves persist on stems for several years. Berries dark purple to black. Distribution: circumpolar, at high latitudes, from Scotland east across Scandinavia, Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland; southern limits in Europe in the Pyrenees and the Alps, in Asia to the Altai mountains, and in North America to British Columbia in the west, and Maine and New Hampshire in the US in the east.
Basionym: Arbutus alpina L.
