Family | PRIMULACEAE |
Genus species | Androsace ovczinnikovii Schischk. & Bobrov |
Bibliography | Fl. URSS 18: 729 (1952) |
Native Range | Siberia to Central Asia and w. Mongolia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 1500-3100m |
Description | leaves grey-green, linear to linear-lanceolate, 7-12mm long, apically white lanate, umbel 3-8-flowered, flowers 4-6mm across, petals obovate to oblong-obovate, apex rounded |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | white, becoming pink |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |