Family | APIACEAE |
Genus species | Aciphylla simplex Petrie |
Bibliography | Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 440 (1890) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | leaves in rosettes, sessile, erect or curvate, 3-10cm long, tapered to sharp, mucronate apex, umbels in globular panicle to 5cm broad, bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | golden |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |