Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Dianthus micranthus Boiss. & Heldr. |
Bibliography | Diagn. Pl. Orient. [P.E.Boissier] 8: 69 (1849) |
Native Range | Anti-Lebanon to Turkey |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocks |
Description | leaves rigid, short, narrowly linear-triquetrous, acute, 3-nerved, flowers solitary, calyx obtuse, with white margins, petals abaxially red |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | late spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny 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 cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Dianthus haussknechtii Boiss. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (LBS Lebanon-Syria, TUR Turkey) |