Family | ROSACEAE |
Genus species | Fallugia paradoxa (D.Don ex Tilloch) Endl. ex Torr. |
Bibliography | Not. Milit. Reconn. [W.H.Emory]: 140 (1848) |
Native Range | California to Oklahoma and n. Mexico |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | sandy grassland |
Altitude | 200-2800m |
Description | leaves deciduous, leaves petiolate, obovate to linear, 1-2-pinnatilobate, coriaceous, lobes entire, hirsute, inflorescence terminal, 1-7-flowered, petals 5, orbiculate |
Size | 10-90cm |
Color | white, pinkish |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings after flowering |
Synonyms | Fallugia acuminata (Wooton) Cockerell Fallugia acuminata var. micrantha (Cockerell) Cockerell Fallugia mexicana Walp. Fallugia micrantha Cockerell Fallugia paradoxa var. acuminata Wooton Geum paradoxum (D.Don ex Tilloch) Steud. Geum plumosum Moc. & Sessé ex D.Don Sieversia paradoxa D.Don ex Tilloch & Taylor |
Territory | 7 Northern America 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (OKL Oklahoma) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona, CAL California, NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico, TEX Texas) 79 Mexico (MXE Mexico Northeast, MXN Mexico Northwest) |