| Family | ERICACEAE |
| Genus species | Cassiope tetragona (L.) D.Don |
| Bibliography | Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 158 (1834) |
| Native Range | Subarctic Northern Hemisphere to Canada |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Description | leaves densely imbricate, appresed, 4-rowed, narrowly triangular, 3-6mm, shortly prickly pubescent, sepals 2-3mm, entire, petals connate up to 2/3 length, corolla cylindrical |
| Size | 15-20cm |
| Color | 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 in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Andromeda tetragona L. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, ICE Iceland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 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) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador) |