Family | SCROPHULARIACEAE |
Genus species | Selago nachtigalii Rolfe |
Bibliography | Verh. Bot. Vereins. Prov. Brandenburg 31: 205 (1890) |
Native Range | Botswana to Namibia |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Altitude | 1300-1700m |
Description | leaves fasciculate, linear or oblong-linear, acute, minutely hirsute, flowers in capitate spikes producing corymb at apex of branchlets, bracts oblong-lanceolate |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Selago alliodora Dinter Walafrida nachtigalii (Rolfe ex Schinz) Rolfe |
Territory | 2 Africa 27 Southern Africa (BOT Botswana, NAM Namibia) |