Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Silene gynodioica Ghaz. |
Synonyms | Silene nodulosa Boiss. |
Habitat | dry, rocky slopes |
Altitude | montane-alpine |
Description | thinly sericeous, leaves rigid, carnose, narrowly linear, adaxially flat, abaxially carinate, yellow mucronate, flowers in cyme, calyx long cylindrical, petals bipartite |
Size | 15-25cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia Western Asia (Iran) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | CARYOPHYLLACEAE
gynodioica glandulosa Melzh., Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 163: 423 (1988)
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