Family | POLEMONIACEAE |
Genus species | Phlox richardsonii Hook. Microphlox, Sibiricae |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | arctic-subarctic |
Description | stems numerous, densely leafy, leaves broadly subulate, 5-6mm, erect, mucronate-acerose, white lanate, flowers sessile, calyx lanate, lobes of corolla ovate-orbiculate |
Size | 3-5cm |
Color | lilac |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | carpet |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-18°C division in spring; cuttings in spring and in late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Russian Far East Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | POLEMONIACEAE
richardsonii alaskensis (Jordal) Wherry, Baileya 4: 98 (1956)
richardsonii borealis (Wherry) Locklear, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3(2): 647 (2009)
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