Family | CISTACEAE |
Genus species | Helianthemum sancti-antonii Schweinf. ex Boiss. |
Bibliography | Fl. Orient., Suppl.: 70 (1888) |
Native Range | e. Medit. to Arabian Peninsula |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | sandy grassland |
Description | very ramose, leaves tomentose, minute, oblong or oblong-linear, margins revolute, shortly petiolate, raceme lax, secund, few flowered, sepals tomentose |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | pale rose |
Bloom | spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (EGY Egypt, LBY Libya) 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai) 35 Arabian Peninsula (SAU Saudi Arabia) |