Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to Oregon and Idaho, east across Canada and the Great Lakes region to northeastern North America.

Habitat: Swamps and bogs at low to middle elevations.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, flies, beetles, moths, hummingbirds, sawflies

Evergreen shrubs 0.5-2 m. tall, the twigs strigose pubescent.

Leaves linear-elliptic, 2-6 cm long, leathery above and densely rusty-woolly on the underside, margins rolled toward the underside

Flowers 5-petaled and white, many, in short, terminal racemes; calyx short, 5-parted nearly to the base; stamens 5-10, slightly longer than the style, the anthers opening by pores near the tip; ovary superior.

Capsule 5-valved, ovoid, 4-5 mm. long, puberulent.