Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Perityle cernua (Greene) Shinners trib. Heliantheae |
Synonyms | Laphamia cernua Greene |
Habitat | rocks |
Altitude | 1500-3000m |
Description | stem leafy, leaves shortly petiolate, broadly orbiculate-triangular, thick, carnose, 2-3cm wide, dentate, capitulua solitary, erect or pendent, ligules absent |
Size | 3-12cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | 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. (New Mexico) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ASTERACEAE
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