Family | POLEMONIACEAE |
Genus species | Phlox richardsonii Hook. Microphlox, Sibiricae |
Bibliography | Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 73 (1837) |
Native Range | Subarctic America |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Description | stems numerous, densely leafy, leaves broadly subulate, 5-6mm, erect, mucronate-acerose, white lanate, flowers sessile, calyx lanate, lobes of corolla ovate-orbiculate |
Size | 3-5cm |
Color | lilac |
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. 1-3 months, 16-18°C division in spring; cuttings in spring and in late summer |
Synonyms | Armeria richardsonii (Hook.) Kuntze Phlox sibirica ssp. richardsonii (Hook.) Hultén Phlox sibirica var. richardsonii (Hook.) S.L.Welsh |
Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) |