Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Perityle rupestris (A.Gray) Shinners trib. Heliantheae |
Synonyms | Laphamia rupestris A.Gray |
Habitat | rocks |
Altitude | 1500-2600m |
Description | hirsute or pilose, leaves petiolate, ovate to subreniform, entire to serrate-lobate, capitula 6-8mm, discoid, involucre subcylindrical, phyllaries oblanceolate |
Size | 5-25cm |
Color | yellow, white |
Bloom | spring, summer |
Ca | - |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Northern America
South-Central U.S.A. (Texas) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ASTERACEAE
rupestris albiflora A.M.Powell, Sida 3: 180 (1967)
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