Family | ONAGRACEAE |
Genus species | Epilobium colchicum Albov |
Bibliography | Prodr. Fl. Colchic.: 86 (1895) |
Native Range | Caucasus to n. Iran and ne. Turkey |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | alluvial gravel |
Description | leaves narrowly lanceolate, in lower half widest, dark green, finely dentate, mucronate, flowers in raceme, flowers 25-30mm across, petals obovate, subentire |
Size | 10-40cm |
Color | red-rose |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Chamaenerion caucasicum (Hausskn.) Sosn. ex Grossh. Chamaenerion colchicum (Albov) Steinb. Chamerion caucasicum (Hausskn.) Galushko Chamerion colchicum (Albov) Holub Epilobium dodonaei var. caucasicum Hausskn. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (IRN Iran, TUR Turkey) |