Leatherleaf

Perennial. Shrubs erect, 30-100 cm tall. Twigs fulvous, densely lepidote and pubescent. Leaf blade oblong or elliptic-oblong, both surfaces with brownish scales, especially abaxially, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire or inconspicuously denticulate, apex obtuse, mucronulate; upper leaves gradually smaller. Racemes 4-12 cm. Pedicel ca. 2 mm, densely pubescent; bracteoles apical. Petiole 1.5-2.5 mm. Flowers pendent. Calyx lobes ovate, pubescent and lepidote. Corolla white, tubular-urceolate; lobes recurved, ovate. Filaments glabrous. Capsule depressed-globose. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jul. Coniferous forests, mossy moors; low elevations. [N Japan, Mongolia, Russia (Siberia); NE Europe, North America]