Family | PLANTAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Pennellianthus frutescens (Lamb.) Crosswh. trib. Cheloneae |
Bibliography | Amer. Midl. Naturalist 83: 362 (1970) |
Native Range | Russian Far East to n. & c. Japan |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | scree and moraines |
Altitude | 100-2000m |
Description | leaves opposite, carnose, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, 4-7cm, acute, irregularly serrate, glabrous, inflorescence few flowered, 3-5cm long, flowers tubular, 2-3cm long |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | pale purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Chelone frutescens (Lamb.) Steud. Digitalis ambigua Willd. ex Ledeb. Digitalis dasyantha Pall. ex Lamb. Leiostemon frutescens (Lamb.) Raf. ex Straw Penstemon frutescens Lamb. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) |