| Family | SALICACEAE |
| Genus species | Salix uva-ursi Pursh |
| Bibliography | Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 610 (1814) |
| Native Range | Subarctic America, e. Canada and ne. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 10-1200m |
| Description | branchlets brown, leaves obovate or elliptic, 8-20mm, acute, finely crenate, dark shiny green, abaxially paler, with distinct venation, catkins to 2cm long |
| Size | 10-15cm |
| Color | |
| 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 when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in early summer and fall |
| Synonyms | Salix arbuscula var. labradorica Andersson Salix cutleri var. labradorica Andersson Salix cutleri f. major Andersson Salix cutleri f. minor Andersson Salix ivigtutiana Lundstr. Salix prostrata Muhl Salix retusa Oakes ex Tucker Salix uva-ursi f. lasiophylla Fernald Salix uva-ursi f. phyllolepis Fernald Vimen uva-ursi (Pursh) Raf |
| Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, NSC Nova Scotia, QUE Québec) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (MAI Maine, NWH New Hampshire, NWY New York, VER Vermont) |