Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Laphamia cinerea A.Gray trib. Heliantheae |
Bibliography | Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. [W.H.Emory] 2(1): 82 (1859) |
Native Range | Texas |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | rocks |
Altitude | 800-1300m |
Description | densely leafy, densely tomentose-pilose, leaves petiolate, broadly ovate, deeply serrate, capitula discoid in corymb, involucre narrowly campanulate, phyllaries oblanceolate |
Size | 8-25cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | spring, summer |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, 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 | Pappothrix cinerea (A.Gray) Rydb. Perityle cinerea (A.Gray) A.M.Powell |
Territory | 7 Northern America 77 South-Central U.S.A. (TEX Texas) |