Family | POLYGALACEAE |
Genus species | Polygala tenuifolia Willd. |
Habitat | grassland and thickets |
Altitude | 200-2300m |
Description | leaves subsessile, linear, 1-3cm, papery, glabrous, entire, acuminate, raceme terminal, secund, 5-7cm, few flowered, sepals 5, persistent, petals 3 |
Size | 15-40cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | mesic, slightly humous, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, rich, drained soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia ) Russian Far East (Amur , Khabarovsk , Primorye ) China (China South-Central , Inner Mongolia , Manchuria , China North-Central , Qinghai , China Southeast ) Mongolia Eastern Asia (Korea) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | POLYGALACEAE
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