Canada, Manitoba (Prov.), Churchill, Around Northern Studies Centre.
58.737678 -93.819467 WGS84
Growing in the dry calcareous gravel around Northern Studies Centre. Isolated plants in the gravel, and in nearby mossy taiga are less than 30 cm tall. Others around Churchill area are over 1 m tall. Associated species Tristetum spicatum, Poa glauca, Deschampsia and Gentianella propinqua in a substrate with very little organic material.