| Family | DIAPENSIACEAE |
| Genus species | Diapensia obovata (F.Schmidt) Nakai |
| Bibliography | Trees Shrubs Japan [T.Nakai & G.Koidzumi]: 194 (1922) |
| Native Range | c. Siberia to n. & c. Japan, Alaska to n. British Columbia |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Description | rooting, leaves 3-8mm long, obovate to spathulate-elliptic, margins narrowly revolute, flowers solitary, pedicellate, sepals 4-7mm, connate, corolla campanulate, 7-10mm long |
| Size | 2-5cm |
| Color | white, rose |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Diapensia lapponica var. asiatica Herder Diapensia lapponica var. obovata F.Schmidt Diapensia lapponica ssp. obovata (F.Schmidt) Hultén Diapensia lapponica var. rosea Hultén Diapensia lapponica f. rosea (Hultén) P.J.Scott & R.T.Day |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |