Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Silene grisea Boiss. |
Bibliography | Diagn. Pl. Orient. 8: 88 (1849) |
Native Range | Syria to Israel |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocks |
Description | densely grey sericeous, woody-based, lower leaves crowded, oblong-spathulate, upper leaves linear, short, flowers in raceme, calyx glandular, petals bipartite |
Size | 20-25cm |
Color | yellowish green |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine) |