| Family | ERICACEAE |
| Genus species | Rhododendron lapponicum (L.) Wahlenb. |
| Bibliography | Fl. Lapp.: 104 (1812) |
| Native Range | Subarctic to Japan and nc. & ne. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Altitude | 0-1900m |
| Description | leaves oblong-elliptic to obovate, obtuse, mucronate, adaxially pale green, dull, densely scaly, abaxially red-brown, flowers of 3-5, infundibuliform, 7-13mm across |
| Size | 20-40cm |
| Color | purple, pinkish violet |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | - |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous 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 |
| Synonyms | Azalea ferruginosa Pall. Azalea lapponica L. Azalea pallida Turcz. Osmothamnus pallidus (Turcz.) DC. Rhododendron confertissimum Nakai Rhododendron lapponicum var. roseum Abrom. Rhododendron lapponicum var. viride Berlin Rhododendron micranthum Maxim. Rhododendron pallidum (Turcz.) Dümmer Rhododendron parvifolium f. albiflorum Herder ex Maxim. Rhododendron parvifolium ssp. confertissimum (Nakai) A.P.Khokhr. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, NSC Nova Scotia, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (WIS Wisconsin) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (MAI Maine, NWH New Hampshire, NWY New York) |