ABSTRACT
On slopes, scrubs. East. Sib.: Chi-Shi.—Far East, China, Korean peninsula, Japan. Described from Nor. China.
1. L. borealis L. 1753, Sp. PL: 631. Evergreen 15-120 cm tall shrub, with creeping and rooting, weakly
pubescent branches. Leaves coriaceous, 4-20 mm long, 3-12 mm broad, broad-ovate, subcircular, sometimes elliptical, generally crenatidentate in upper portion, rarely entire; glandular and diffusely hairy, sometimes subglabrous, on both surfaces, mainly along veins. Flowers 2 on 10-20 mm long peduncles emerging from top of glandular-hairy "common peduncle", i.e. elongated (3-8 cm long) upper internode of axillary floral shoots. Very rarely, one of the peduncles dichotomously branched and then inflorescence with 3 flowers. Calyx with 5 narrowly lanceolate lobes. Corolla pinkish or white, 7-10 mm long, campanulate, faintly zygomorphic, 5-lobed. Fruits about 3 mm long, with a single stone. On Putoran plateau (Talnakh settlement, Khakoma lake), East. Sayan (Tunkinsk mountain range), Baikal lake, 2 n = 32.
