Family | BORAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Eritrichium pauciflorum DC. |
Bibliography | Prodr. 10: 127 (1846) |
Native Range | Siberia to n. China |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1400-2000m |
Description | grey sericeous, leaves spathulate, 3-6cm, stem leaves linear, inflorescence terminal and axillary, to 6cm, flowers numerous, corolla campanulate-rotate, limb 6-8mm across |
Size | 10-30cm |
Color | blue |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Eritrichium altaicum Popov Eritrichium pauciflorum ssp. subrupestre (Popov) Malysch. Eritrichium subrupestre Popov Myosotis pauciflora Ledeb. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central) 37 Mongolia |