General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 6 inches
Flower Color: White
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Self
Bees

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Common names
  • Alpine Bearberry
  • Mountain Bearberry
  • Black Bearberry
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Arctostaphylos alpinus
  • Synonym: Arctostaphylos alpina
  • Synonym: Arctous alpinus
  • Synonym: Arctous alpina

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Location: Eagle Crag, White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire. 
Date: August
credit: Chris M
Location: Hokkaido, Japan
Date: 1998
Alpine Bearberry (Arctous alpinus). Wild plants in natural habita

Credit NPS Jacob W. Frank
Photo by robertduval14

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