Family | PRIMULACEAE |
Genus species | Androsace incana Lam. sect. Chamaejasme |
Bibliography | Tabl. Encycl. 1: 432 (1792) |
Native Range | Siberia to n. China |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 2000-3500m |
Description | rosettes 6-10mm, leaves sessile, lanceolate to ligulate, 3-9mm, abaxially densely white hirsute, umbels 1-4-flowered, flowers 5-8mm across, petals broadly obovate, apex rounded |
Size | 1-5cm |
Color | whitish |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 10-16°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Androsace hopeiensis Nakai Androsace laxmanniana R.Knuth Androsace villosa var. incana (Lam.) Duby Androsace villosa var. turczaninovii Freyn |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KHA Khabarovsk) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |