Taras Boychuk

R. myrtifolium 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.