Family | DIAPENSIACEAE |
Genus species | Diapensia obovata (F.Schmidt) Nakai |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | arctic-subarctic |
Description | rooting, leaves 3-8mm long, obovate to spathulate-elliptic, margins narrowly revolute, flowers solitary, pedicellate, sepals 4-7mm, connate, corolla campanulate, 7-10mm long |
Size | 2-5cm |
Color | white, rose |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub, carpet |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia (Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (British Columbia) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | DIAPENSIACEAE
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