Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Bergenia crassifolia (L.) Fritsch |
Bibliography | Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 39: 587 (1889) |
Native Range | Siberia to North Korea |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | shady rocks and woods |
Altitude | 1100-1800m |
Description | leaves basal, obovate to elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, shallowly dentate, basally cuneate, inflorescence cymose, 4-15cm, many flowered, petals elliptic to ovate, venose |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. over 1 year, 13-16°C division in spring and fall |
Synonyms | Bergenia biflora Moench Bergenia bifolia Moench Bergenia cordifolia (Haw.) Sternb. Bergenia coreana Nakai Bergenia crassifolia var. cordifolia (Haw.) Boriss. Bergenia crassifolia var. sajanensis Stepanov Geryonia crassifolia (L.) Schrank ex Hoppe Megasea cordifolia (Haw.) Haw. Megasea crassifolia (L.) Haw. Piarophyla cordifolia (Haw.) Raf. Piarophyla elliptica Raf. Saxifraga cordifolia Haw. Saxifraga crassifolia L. Saxifraga crassifolia var. elliptica Bunge Saxifraga crassifolia var. obovata Ser. Saxifraga crassifolia var. pauciflora Ser. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (KOR Korea) |