United States, Minnesota, Cook, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Rugged bedrock terrain west of Lima Mountain, 16 miles north-northwest of Grand Marais. T64N R1W W1/2 of SE1/4 of SE1/4 Sec. 34, E1/2 of SW1/4 of SE1/4 Sec. 34
Infrequent to occasional in poor black spruce swamp south of Carl Lake. Patchy to moderately dense canopy dominated by mature Picea mariana. In continuous moss carpets (Sphagnum angustifolium, S. magellanicum, Pleurozium schreberi, Hylocomium splendens). Deep, saturated peat. A few hundred clumps in a several acre area.