Family | PLUMBAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Acantholimon erythraeum Bunge sect. Staticopsis |
Bibliography | Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 3(1): 99 (1875) |
Native Range | Central Asia to Afghanistan |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1500-3000m |
Description | leaves pale green, triquetrous, linear-subulate, rigid, 2-4cm, acerose, subglabrous, margins smooth, spike terminal, minute, 2-3cm, spikelets 5-10, 1-flowered, calyx purple |
Size | 3-5cm |
Color | rose |
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 spring, germ. 1-3 month, 10-16°C half-ripe cuttings in midsummer, stimulator |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KGZ Kirgizistan, TKM Turkmenistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) |