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Cassiope lycopodioides
Also called Clubmoss cassiope, Haida Gwaii Mountain Heather, Club Moss Mountain Heather
Cassiope lycopodioides is a plant species in the family Ericaceae, known by the common names clubmoss mountain-heather or Haida Gwaii mountain-heather. The species is native to northeast Asia and northwestern North America, where it grows on rocky slopes and crevices in arctic tundra and alpine tundra at elevations up to 2000 m.
The distribution of Cassiope lycopodioides spans an arc of the northern Pacific Rim, extending from northeast Asia over to northwestern North America. In Asia, the species ranges from high elevations on Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan, north through coastal mountain ranges and tundra of the Russian Far East.
Western moss heather · White arctic mountain heather · Mountain heather
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cassiope lycopodioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
