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Cassiope tetragona

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Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
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Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
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Internal ID UUID64400f9860075826896969
Scientific name Cassiope tetragona
Authority (L.) D.Don
First published in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 158 (1834)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Andromeda tetragona L. Sp. Pl. : 393 (1753)

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Language Common/alternative name
English white arctic mountain heather
Danish kantlyng
Danish almindelig kantlyng
German tundrenheide
German vierkantige schuppenheide
Finnish tunturiliekovarpio
Finnish liekovarpio
Hungarian négysoros mohahanga
Norwegian Bokmål kantlyng
Dutch arctische dophei
Norwegian Nynorsk kantlyng
Russian Кассиопея четырехгранная
Russian Кассиопея четырёхгранная
Russian andromeda tetragona
Swedish kantljung

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Name Authority First published in
Cassiope tetragona subsp. saximontana (Small) A.E.Porsild Canad. Field-Naturalist 54: 68 (1940)
Cassiope tetragona subsp. tetragona 1940

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  • Asia-temperate
    • Russian Far East
      • Amur
      • Kamchatka
      • Khabarovsk
      • Magadan
    • Siberia
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • North European Russia
    • Northern Europe
      • Finland
      • Iceland
      • Norway
      • Svalbard
      • Sweden
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Montana
      • Washington
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000589580
Canadensys 5501
USDA Plants CATE11
Tropicos 12300072
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1043713-2
The Plant List kew-2704413
Open Tree Of Life 506857
Observations.org 147520
NCBI Taxonomy 423282
Nature Serve 2.139985
IPNI 1043713-2
iNaturalist 153373
GBIF 5333401
Freebase /m/06fkxy
EPPO CAITE
EOL 583644
USDA GRIN 9414
Wikipedia Cassiope_tetragona
PFAF Cassiope tetragona

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_051176075.1 ddCasTetr1_p1.2 Scaffold Canada's national platform for genome sequencing and analysis 2025-07-02 44.68 942.72 Mb

Scientific Literature Top

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Conservation of the Rare and Endangered Vascular Plants in the Mining and Tourism Area: Khibiny Mountains, Murmansk Region, Russia Borovichev EA, Kozhin MN, Koroleva NE, Petrova OV, Akhmerova DR, Shulina MV Plants (Basel) 23-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11085426
doi:10.3390/plants13091180
PMID:38732395
Bacterial and fungal communities in sub-Arctic tundra heaths are shaped by contrasting snow accumulation and nutrient availability Männistö MK, Ahonen SH, Ganzert L, Tiirola M, Stark S, Häggblom MM FEMS Microbiol Ecol 28-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10996926
doi:10.1093/femsec/fiae036
PMID:38549428
Selection of summer feeding sites and food resources by female migratory caribou (Rangifer tarandus) determined using camera collars Béland S, Vuillaume B, Leclerc M, Bernier M, Côté SD PLoS One 29-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10686509
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0294846
PMID:38019854
Vegetation type, not the legacy of warming, modifies the response of microbial functional genes and greenhouse gas fluxes to drought in Oro-Arctic and alpine regions Fry EL, Ashworth D, Allen KA, Chardon NI, Rixen C, Björkman MP, Björk RG, Stålhandske T, Molau M, Locke-King B, Cantillon I, McDonald C, Liu H, De Vries FT, Ostle NJ, Singh BK, Bardgett RD FEMS Microbiol Ecol 10-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10673709
doi:10.1093/femsec/fiad145
PMID:37951295
The High–Low Arctic boundary: How is it determined and where is it located? Ermokhina KA, Terskaia AI, Ivleva TY, Dudov SV, Zemlianskii VА, Telyatnikov MY, Khitun OV, Troeva EI, Koroleva NE, Abdulmanova SY Ecol Evol 28-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10539046
doi:10.1002/ece3.10545
PMID:37780086
The northernmost hyperspectral FLoX sensor dataset for monitoring of high-Arctic tundra vegetation phenology and Sun-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) Tømmervik H, Julitta T, Nilsen L, Park T, Burkart A, Ostapowicz K, Karlsen SR, Parmentier FJ, Pirk N, Bjerke JW Data Brief 16-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10520339
doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109581
PMID:37767128
Plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard Vandvik V, Halbritter AH, Althuizen IH, Christiansen CT, Henn JJ, Jónsdóttir IS, Klanderud K, Macias-Fauria M, Malhi Y, Maitner BS, Michaletz S, Roos RE, Telford RJ, Bass P, Björnsdóttir K, Bustamante LL, Chmurzynski A, Chen S, Haugum SV, Kemppinen J, Lepley K, Li Y, Linabury M, Matos IS, Neto-Bradley BM, Ng M, Niittynen P, Östman S, Pánková K, Roth N, Castorena M, Spiegel M, Thomson E, Vågenes AS, Enquist BJ Sci Data 04-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10477187
doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02467-7
PMID:37666874
Diverging trends and drivers of Arctic flower production in Greenland over space and time Becker-Scarpitta A, Antão LH, Schmidt NM, Blanchet FG, Kaarlejärvi E, Raundrup K, Roslin T Polar Biol 12-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10425507
doi:10.1007/s00300-023-03164-2
PMID:37589013
Rocks, lichens, and woody litter influenced the soil invertebrate density in upland tundra heath Jegede OO, Standen KM, Siciliano S, Lamb EG, Stewart KJ PLoS One 02-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10153722
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0282068
PMID:37130125
NDVI changes in the Arctic: Functional significance in the moist acidic tundra of Northern Alaska Jespersen RG, Anderson-Smith M, Sullivan PF, Dial RJ, Welker JM PLoS One 28-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10146450
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0285030
PMID:37115765
From everywhere all at once: Several colonization routes available to Svalbard in the early Holocene Brožová V, Bolstad JS, Seregin AP, Eidesen PB Ecol Evol 19-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10025081
doi:10.1002/ece3.9892
PMID:36950366
Dynamic environmental interactions shaped by vegetative plant volatiles Escobar-Bravo R, Lin PA, Waterman JM, Erb M Nat Prod Rep 02-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC10132087
doi:10.1039/d2np00061j
PMID:36727645
Declining temperature and increasing moisture sensitivity of shrub growth in the Low‐Arctic erect dwarf‐shrub tundra of western Greenland Weijers S Ecol Evol 06-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9637549
doi:10.1002/ece3.9419
PMID:36381399
Experimentally increased snow depth affects high Arctic microarthropods inconsistently over two consecutive winters Krab EJ, Lundin EJ, Coulson SJ, Dorrepaal E, Cooper EJ Sci Rep 27-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9613649
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-22591-5
PMID:36302819
Plant and Soil Core Mycobiomes in a Two-Year Sorghum–Legume Intercropping System of Underutilized Crops in South Africa Pambuka GT, Kinge TR, Ghosh S, Cason ED, Nyaga MM, Gryzenhout M Microorganisms 20-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9611730
doi:10.3390/microorganisms10102079
PMID:36296355

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