Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Lotus hillebrandii Christ |
Bibliography | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 9: 122 (1887) |
Native Range | Canary Islands |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | densely adpressed greyish lanate, stipules orbiculate-ovate, leaves petiolate, pinnate, leaflets lanceolate-cuneate, obtuse, flowers of 4-6 in long pedunculate head, pod linear |
Size | 20-30cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, dark, moist, germ. 1 month, 18-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Lotus campylocladus ssp. hillebrandii (Christ) Sandral & D.D.Sokoloff Lotus campylocladus var. hillebrandii (Christ) Pit. & Proust |
Territory | 2 Africa 21 Macaronesia (CNY Canary Is.) |