 This plant flowers between June and August.Alpine catchfly is found in northern Europe including Norway, Sweden, Finland and Lapland and in the Alps and the Pyrenees where it grows on rocks including extra-alkaline serpentine rocks, gravel banks beside rivers, sand banks, sea cliffs and nutrient-poor, stony areas.In Greenland and North America it is found on tundra, barren rocky areas, gulleys and riverside shingle, grassy slopes and sea cliffs.