Family | SCROPHULARIACEAE |
Genus species | Nemesia caerulea Hiern |
Bibliography | Fl. Cap. [W.H.Harvey & auct. suc., eds.] 4(2): 191 (1904) |
Native Range | South Africa to Lesotho |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland and rocks |
Altitude | 1200-3200m |
Description | stems simple, basally leafy, leaves opposite, dentate, sessile, flowers 8-10mm long, hirsute, with white eye, in terminal cyme, spur 2-3mm long |
Size | 10-60cm |
Color | blue, purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 2 Africa 27 Southern Africa (CPP Cape Provinces, LES Lesotho, NAT KwaZulu-Natal, OFS Free State) |