Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Stevenia cheiranthoides DC. |
Bibliography | Syst. Nat. 2: 210 (1821) |
Native Range | Siberia to Central Asia and Mongolia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland and rocks |
Description | pilose, leaves linear, 1-2cm, tapered to petiolate base, acute, stem leaves similar, flowers in raceme, sepals narrowly oblong, 15-25mm long, petals 4-5mm long |
Size | 5-15cm |
Color | pink, white, purple |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | + |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Arabis incarnata Pall. ex C.A.Mey. Cheiranthus paniculatus Steven ex DC. Cheiranthus salinus Willd. ex DC. Draba multiceps Kitag. Erysimum fruticulosum Kuntze Hesperis salina Lam. Sisymbrium paniculatum Stephan ex E.Fourn. Sisymbrium tomentosum Steven ex DC. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KHA Khabarovsk) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia) 37 Mongolia |