Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Erigeron altaicus Popov trib. Astereae |
Bibliography | Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 8: 53 (1940) |
Native Range | sw. Siberia to Central Asia and Mongolia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 2000-2500m |
Description | long, sparsely, adpressed hirsute, leaves oblanceolate, entire, mucronate, long petiolate, stem leaves sessile, lanceolate, capitula 2-4cm, phyllaries lanceolate, acute |
Size | 15-50cm |
Color | blue |
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 spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 16-21°C division in spring; cuttings in spring and late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |