Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Draba violacea DC. sect. Calodraba |
Bibliography | Syst. Nat. 2: 354 (1821) |
Native Range | Ecuador |
Primary Biome | Montane Tropical |
Habitat | scree and moraines |
Altitude | 4000-4500m |
Description | leaves dense, imbricate, short, sessile, obovate or elliptic, rounded, entire, white tomentose, raceme compact, 5-15-flowered, petals 8-9mm long, emarginate |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | violet |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Draba bonplandiana Kunth Draba violacea var. leiocarpa O.E.Schulz |
Territory | 8 Southern America 83 Western South America (ECU Ecuador) |