Blossomed rhododendrons high in the mountains with ferns in the foreground. Rhododendron myrtifolium is a lepidote in subgenus Rhododendron, subsection Rhododendron. This is a distinct subsection that has been isolated in the central European high mountain ranges. It is found in the Carpathian and Balkan mountains of Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania, and S. W. Russia at 5,000-8,000 feet 1,500-2,400 meters in forest floor, pine scrub to open moorland on acid and limestone. It can form large stands in the alpine heaths growing along with Juniperus nana.
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