Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Silene kuschakewiczii Regel & Schmalh. |
Bibliography | Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 5: 246 (1877) |
Native Range | Central Asia to Afghanistan |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | leaves oblong, acute, entire, scabrously shortly hirsute, petiolate, stem leaves similar, connate, flowers in cyme, pedicellate, petals 6-8mm long, bifid |
Size | 15-25cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | 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 |
Synonyms | Silene excedens Bondarenko ex Vved. Silene guntensis ssp. eglandulosa Podlech Siene hispidula Ovcz. Silene kuhistanica Ovcz. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) |