| Family | ROSACEAE |
| Genus species | Dryas octopetala L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 501 (1753) |
| Native Range | Subarctic and Temperate Eurasia, Greenland |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland and scree |
| Description | leaves petiolate, elliptic to suborbiculate, coriaceous, abaxially white tomentose, adaxially pilose or glabrous, obtusely serrate, flowers 15-25mm across, petals obovate |
| Size | 5-10cm |
| Color | white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | + |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer; layering in early spring |
| Synonyms | Dryadea octopetala (L.) Kuntze Dryas alpina Salisb. Dryas babingtoniana A.E.Porsild Dryas camschatica Juz. Dryas camschatica f. albicans (Kom.) Kom. Dryas caucasica Juz. Dryas chamaedrifolia (Crantz) A.Gray Dryas chamaedryoides Pall. Dryas crenata Raf. Dryas depressa (Bab.) Bab. Dryas eriopoda Gand. Dryas henricae Juz. Dryas lanata Stein ex Correvon Dryas lepida Gand. Dryas montana Bubani Dryas nivea F.Kern. ex Correvon Dryas octopetala f. albicans Kom. Dryas octopetala var. angustifolia C.L.Hitchc. Dryas octopetala var. argentea Blytt Dryas octopetala f. argentea (Blytt) Hultén Dryas octopetala var. camschatica (Juz.) Hultén Dryas octopetala ssp. caucasica (Juz.) Hultén Dryas octopetala var. caucasica Bornm. Drysa octopetala ssp. chamaedrifolia (Crantz) Gams Dryas octopetala var. collina Em.Schmid Dryas octopetala ssp. dasypetala (Juz.) Hultén Dryas octopetala var. dasypetala (Juz.) Hultén Dryas octopetala var. depressa Bab. Dryas octopetala f. hirsuta Hartz Dryas octopetala f. lanata (Stein ex Correvon) C.K.Schneid. Dryas octopetala ssp. longifolia Regel & Tiling Dryas octopetala var. longifolia (Regel & Tiling) Regel & Trautv. Dryas octopetala var. luteola Hultén Dryas octopetala var. minor Hook. Dryas octopetala var. pilosa Bab. Dryas octopetala ssp. punctata (Juz.) Hultén Dryas octopetala ssp. subincisa Jurtzev Dryas octopetala var. typica Beck Dryas octopetala f. typica (Beck) Buia Drysa octopetala var. vestita Beck Dryas octopetala f. vestita (Beck) Buia Dryas octopetala ssp. viscida (Hultén) Kozhevn. Dryas octopetala var. viscida Hultén Dryas pentaphyllaea Hill Dryas punctata Juz. Dryas punctata var. cinerea Jurtzev Dryas punctata var. henricae (Juz.) A.E.Porsild Dryas punctata var. kamtschatica (Juz.) Kozhevn. Dryas punctata f. nuda Popov Dryas subincisa (Jurtzev) Tzvelev Dryas subincisa var. minor (Hook.) Tzvelev Dryas vagans Juz. Geum chamaedrifolium Crantz Geum octopetalum (L.) E.H.L.Krause Ptilotum octopetalum (L.) Dulac |
| Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, FOR Fřroyar, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, IRE Ireland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, GRC Greece, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 36 China (CHM Manchuria, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (GNL Greenland) |
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