Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Santolina elegans Boiss. ex DC. trib. Anthemideae |
Bibliography | Prodr. 7: 296 (1838) |
Native Range | s. Spain (Sierra Nevada) |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | scree |
Altitude | 1700-2000m |
Description | branchlets trailing, leaves narrowly oblong to spathulate, white sericeous, lower leaves crenate to pinnate, upper leaves entire, capitula 7-10mm across, hemispherical |
Size | 10-20cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 1 Europe 12 Southwestern Europe (SPA Spain) |