Description: perennial, dioecious, forming dense cushions to 10 cm or more diam., with branching caudex, arising from taproot
Habitat: Arctic screes, fellfields, gravelly tundra, rocky knolls on wide variety of rock types; 300-1700 m; Yukon; Alaska; Asia (Russian Far East)
Form of cushion | C | Hemispherical (dome shaped) cushion |
Compactness | NA | NA |
Variability | NA | NA |
Root system | NA | NA |
Woodiness | NA | NA |
Thorniness | NA | NA |
Succulence | 0 | No |
Flowers | NA | NA |