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Acantholimon antilibanoticum is a small evergreen cushion-forming subshrub from the Anti-Lebanon mountains of Syria and Lebanon, forming dense spiny mats with summer flowers. It is a specialist of gravelly, dry, high-altitude sites, so it is best grown in a sharply drained rock garden or alpine setting.
Acantholimon antilibanoticum is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, belonging to the genus Acantholimon Boiss., a large assemblage of cushion-forming subshrubs. The species was described by the French Jesuit botanist Paul Mouterde and is named for the Anti-Lebanon mountain range, the limestone ridge that forms the majority of the border between Lebanon and Syria. It is one of several vascular plant taxa bearing the Latin epithet antilibanoticum recorded as native or near-endemic to this geographically distinct range.
Acantholimon antilibanoticum is native to the Anti-Lebanon range, a southwest-to-northeast-trending mountain chain running parallel to Mount Lebanon and separated from it by the Beqaa Valley. The range averages approximately 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) above sea level, with several peaks exceeding 2,400 metres (7,900 ft); its highest point, Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Shaykh), reaches 2,814 metres (9,232 ft) and is snow-covered for much of the year. The Euro+Med Plantbase Project records the species as native to the Lebanon–Syria region.
Acantholimon acanthobryum · Acantholimon acerosum · Acantholimon acmostegium · Acantholimon aegaeum · Acantholimon afanassievii · Acantholimon agropyroideum · Acantholimon ahangarense · Acantholimon akaydinii · Acantholimon alaicum · Acantholimon alatavicum · Acantholimon alavae · Acantholimon albanicum
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
