Summary ²

Diapensia lapponica is a plant in the family Diapensiaceae, the only circumpolar species in the genus Diapensia, the others being mainly in the Himalaya and on mountains in southwestern China. It is a circumboreal Arctic–alpine species which grows on exposed rocky ridges that are kept free from snow by high winds.

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