Family | PLUMBAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Acantholimon lycopodioides (Girard) Boiss. sect. Glumaria |
Bibliography | Prodr. [A.P.de Candolle] 12: 632 (1848) |
Native Range | Afghanistan to nw. Xinjiang and w. Himalaya |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1500-4500m |
Description | leaves glaucous, linear, 15-30mm, rigid, glabrous, shortly spinose, inflorescence unbranched, 3-4cm, densely pubescent, spikelets 5-8, 2-3-flowered, calyx infundibuliform |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | pink, pinkish |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 month, 10-16°C half-ripe cuttings in midsummer, stimulator |
Synonyms | Acantholimon tibeticum Hook.f. & Thomson ex C.B.Clarke Armeriastrum lycopodioides (Girard) Kuntze Statice lycopodioides Girard |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) |