| Family | ROSACEAE |
| Genus species | Rubus arcticus L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 494 (1753) |
| Native Range | Subarctic to nw. USA and n. Japan |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-3000m |
| Description | rhizomatous, leaves trifoliolate, leaflets dentate, cuneate-obovate, 10-35mm long, coriaceous and shiny, flowers solitary, over 35mm across, berry red |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | pinkish, white |
| Bloom | summer |
| 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 late summer; layering in early spring and fall |
| Synonyms | Cylactis arcticus (L.) Raf. ex B.D.Jacks. Rubus arcticus f. dentipetala Uyeki & Sakata Rubus arcticus ssp. humilis (Gladkova) Krassovsk. Rubus arcticus var. humilis Gladkova Rubus arcticus var. kamtschaticus Focke Rubus arcticus var. leuciticus Fr. Rubus arcticus var. pentaphylloides Hultén Rubus arcticus ssp. stellarcticus G.Larss. Rubus arcticus var. subquinquelobus Ser. Rubus arcticus var. subquinquetrilobus Brenner Rubus haellstroemi Kuntze Rubus pistillatus Sm. Rubus pseudoarcticus Kuntze Rubus stellarcticus (G.Larss.) H.E.Weber |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 14 Eastern Europe (RUC Central European Russia, RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West 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, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (WAS Washington) |