Family | PLANTAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Lagotis glauca Gaertn. |
Bibliography | Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 14(1): 533 (1770) |
Native Range | e. Siberia to Subarctic America, Japan |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-1800m |
Description | stems simple, carnose, basal leaves long petiolate, obovate or lanceolate, rounded, stem leaves subsessile, ovate to triangular, inflorescence spicate |
Size | 5-35cm |
Color | blue, purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in spring just as young growth commences |
Synonyms | Lagotis glauca f. candida Lepage Lagotis stelleri Rupr. Rhinanthus glauca (Gaertn.) Poir. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) |