Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Dracocephalum fragile Turcz. ex Benth. |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | subalpine-alpine |
Description | leaves petiolate, oblong to ovate, 1-6cm, obtuse, entire, flowers in whorls of 4-8, producing ovoid spike 4-9cm long, corolla 25-30mm long, inside deep blue |
Size | 5-20cm |
Color | whitish yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | + |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in early spring; basal cuttings in late spring |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia (Buryatiya , Irkutsk , Tuva ) Mongolia |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | LAMIACEAE
fragile crenatum Vodop., Vysokogornaya Fl. Stanovogo Nagor‘ya [L.I.Mayschev, ed.] 131 (1972)
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