| Family | ERICACEAE |
| Genus species | Arctous rubra (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Nakai |
| Bibliography | Trees Shrubs Japan [T.Nakai & G.Koidzumi]: 156 (1922) |
| Native Range | Siberia to China and Japan, Subarctic America to Wyoming |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| 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 | subshrub |
| Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Arctostaphylos alpina var. rubra (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Bean Arctostaphylos alpina ssp. rubra (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Hultén Arctostaphylos rubra (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Fernald Arctous alpina ssp. erythrocarpa (Small) M.M.Ivanova Arctous alpina var. rubra Rehder & E.H.Wilson Arctous erythrocarpa Small |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 72 Eastern Canada (NFL Newfoundland, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (WYO Wyoming) |