Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Leontopodium discolor Beauverd trib. Gnaphalieae |
Bibliography | Bull. Soc. Bot. Genéve, ser. 2, 1: 188 (1909) |
Native Range | Russian Far East to n. Japan |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | leaves linear-lorate, 4-8cm long, mucronate, long petiolate, white lanate abaxially, thinly lanate adaxially, bracteate heads 3-8cm across |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | white |
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 early spring; cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KHA Khabarovsk, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) |