| Family | CAPRIFOLIACEAE |
| Genus species | Linnaea borealis L. |
| Synonyms | Linnaea americana Forbes |
| Linnaea australis Hoffmanns. | |
| Linnaea longiflora Howell | |
| Habitat | thickets and woods |
| Description | leaves orbiculate, crenate, to 15mm long, sparsely hirsute, rigid, in opposite pairs, flowers campanulate, ca. 8mm long, pendent, in pairs, on thin, erect pedicels |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | pale pink |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | - |
| Type | carpet |
| Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
| Propagation | seed when ripe or in spring careful division in spring; cuttings in late summer and fall |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Denmark , Finland , Great Britain , Norway , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Netherlands , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (France ) Southeastern Europe (Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Belarus , Baltic States , Central European Russia , East European Russia , North European Russia , Northwest European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) Mongolia Eastern Asia (Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | CAPRIFOLIACEAE
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