| Family | BORAGINACEAE |
| Genus species | Alkanna tinctoria (L.) Tausch |
| Synonyms | Lithospermum tinctorium L. |
| Alkanna bracteolata Greuter | |
| Alkanna matthioli Tausch | |
| Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
| Description | shortly sericeous, grey setose, leaves lanceolate, obtuse, upper leaves subamplexicaule, flowers in raceme, calyx lobes lanceolate-linear, acute, corolla outside glabrous |
| Size | 10-30cm |
| Color | blue |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | tuft, fl. stem decumbent |
| Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring; root cuttings in late winter |
| Territory |
Europe
Middle Europe (Czechoslovakia , Hungary ) Southwestern Europe (France , Sardegna , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Albania , Bulgaria , Greece , Italy , Kriti , Romania , Sicilia , Turkey-in-Europe , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Krym , Ukraine ) Africa Northern Africa (Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Morocco , Tunisia ) Asia-Temperate Western Asia (Cyprus , East Aegean Is. , Lebanon-Syria , Palestine , Turkey) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | BORAGINACEAE
tinctoria anatolica Hub.-Mor., Bauhinia 4(2): 206 (1971)
tinctoria subleiocarpa (Hub.-Mor.) Hub.-Mor., Fl. Turkey 6: 426 (1978)
inctoria tripolitana (Bornm.) Qaiser, Fl. Libya 68: 78 (1979)
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