Family | BORAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Eritrichium sericeum (Lehm.) A.DC. |
Bibliography | Prodr. [A.P.de Candolle] 10: 126 (1846) |
Native Range | Siberia to Russian Far East |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | basal leaves spathulate-lanceolate, acute, to 1cm long, grey-white appresed hirsute, stem leaves smaller, linear, flowers in elongate spike, corolla 5-10mm |
Size | 10-20cm |
Color | pale blue |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Anchusa sericea (Lehm.) Roem. & Schult. Eritrichium baicalense Popov Eritrichium sericeum var. baicalense (Popov) M.M.Ivanova Myosotis sericea Lehm. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) |