Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Facelis plumosa (Wedd.) Sch.Bip. trib. Gnaphalieae |
Bibliography | Bull. Soc. Bot. France 12: 81 (1865) |
Native Range | Peru to nw. Argentina and c. Chile |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 2500-4500m |
Description | stems thin, procumbent, glabrous, leaves linear-lanceolate or linear, acute, adaxially pilose, abaxially hirsute, capitula solitary, sessile, involucre brownish |
Size | 3-5cm |
Color | |
Bloom | summer |
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, 13-20°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Facelis weddelliana Beauverd Lucilia plumosa Wedd. |
Territory | 8 Southern America 83 Western South America (BOL Bolivia, PER Peru) 85 Southern South America (AGW Argentina Northwest, CLN Chile North) |