Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Noccaea oppositifolia (Pers.) Al-Shehbaz & Menke |
Bibliography | Taxon 61: 949 (2012) |
Native Range | Lebanon |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocks and scree |
Altitude | 2000-3000m |
Description | branchlets short, leaves opposite, obovate, carnose, glaucous, flowers in small, terminal raceme, corolla tetramerous, silicles oblong-elliptic, rounded |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | pink |
Bloom | early 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 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Aethionema bourgaei Boiss. Aethionema chlorifolium (Sm.) Boiss. Aethionema oppositifolium (Pers.) Hedge Eunomia bourgaei (Boiss.) Boiss. Eunomia chlorifolia (Sm.) DC. Eunomia oppositifolia DC. Iberis chlorifolia Sm. Iberis olympica Sibth. ex DC. Iberis oppositifolia Pers. Lepidium oppositifolium (Pers.) Labill. Thlaspi oppositifolium (Pers.) Poir. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (LBS Lebanon-Syria) |