United States, Minnesota, Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness; Fairly rugged bedrock east of Jackfish Lake, 17 miles north-northeast of Ely, along a drainage southwest of Circle Lake.
48.13886669 -91.71933404
5332527N 595275E; T65N R11W sec3
399 meters
1310 feet
Uncommon and very local. Small infestation occurs on Picea mariana on the margin of a poor fen, and in the adjacent bedrock (granitic) woodland on a very steep northwest-facing slope above the wetland. A few dozen infected trees here, all are Picea mariana.
Additional associates include Carex trisperma, C. lacustris, Chamaedaphne calyculata, Gaultheria hispidula, Kalmia polifolia, Vaccinium oxycoccus, V. angustifolium, Ledum groenlandicum, Alnus viridis, Lycopodium annotinum.