Boschniakia rossica (Cham. & Schltdl.) B.Fedtsch.

Plants 15-35 cm tall. Rootstock horizontal, cylindric. Stems usually 2 or 3, erect. Leaves 6-8(-10) X 6-8(-10) mm. Inflorescences spicate, 7-22 cm, 1.5-2.5 cm in diam.; bract glabrous abaxially, pubescent adaxially; bractlets absent. Pedicel to 2 mm, 5-8 mm in fruit. Calyx cupular, 5-7 mm, apex irregularly 3-5-toothed. Corolla dark purple-red, broadly campanulate; tube enlarged; upper lip 5-7 mm, margin pubescent; lower lip very short, 3-lobed. Filaments 5.5-6.5 mm; anthers ovoid, ca. 1.2 mm, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 3-4 mm in diam.; placentas 2. Style 5-7 mm, glabrous; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule subglobose, 8-10 X 6-8 mm, dehiscing by 2 valves. Seeds ellipsoid-globose, 0.4-0.5 X ca. 0.2 mm; testa reticulate. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.

It is a cool temperate plant. It grows in moist forests and up to mountain zones. In north China it grows in forests and along river sides between 1,500-1,800 m above sea level.