| Family | ERICACEAE |
| Genus species | Cassiope lycopodioides (Pall.) D.Don |
| Bibliography | Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 158 (1834) |
| Native Range | Russian Far East, Japan, Aleutian Islands to Washington |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 100-3000m |
| Description | leaves oval, entire, dark shiny green, with white margins, appresed in four rows, flowers solitary on glabrous red pedicels, axillary, pendent, calyx violet-green |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | white |
| Bloom | late spring |
| Ca | - |
| Type | subshrub |
| 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 |
| Synonyms | Andromeda lycopodioides Pall. Cassiope lycopodioides ssp. cristapilosa Calder & Roy L.Taylor Cassiope lycopodioides var. cristapilosa (Calder & Roy L.Taylor) B.Boivin Erica lycopodioides (Pall.) K.F.Waitz |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (WAS Washington) |