Bilberry grows in larch forest, birch forest,alpine grassland or wet platform, 900-3200 meters above sea level, often grow in pieces. Of alpine moorlands, heather thickets, coniferous forests, subalpine pastures, and tundra of arctic regions, usually in somewhat dry habitats, but also on fairly wet peat soils. Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, China.