Family | BORAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Pulmonaria rubra Schott |
Bibliography | Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 9: 395 (1851) |
Native Range | Carpathians to Balkan Peninsula |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Description | summer leaves abruptly tapered to petiole, evariegate, adaxially scabrous with long setae, terminal cyme with long, glandular hairs and short setae |
Size | 15-40cm |
Color | brick red |
Bloom | early spring |
Ca | ind |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division in fall; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Pulmonaria transsilvanica Schur |
Territory | 1 Europe 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, GRC Greece, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (UKR Ukraine) |