| Family | ERICACEAE |
| Genus species | Arctous rubra (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Nakai |
| Synonyms | Arctostaphylos rubra (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Fernald |
| Arctous erythrocarpa Small | |
| Habitat | grassland and rocks |
| Altitude | 0-4000m |
| Description | leaves crowded on apex of branchlets, obovate, 10-14mm, glabrous, winged petiolate, crenate, racemes 2-5-flowered, flowers urceolate, berry red, globular, 6-10mm wide |
| Size | 5-20cm |
| Color | white, cream |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | + |
| Type | decumbent shrub |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
| Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Magadan ) China (China South-Central , Inner Mongolia , Manchuria , China North-Central ) Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Newfoundland , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Wyoming) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | ERICACEAE
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