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Acantholimon catenatum is a small, cushion-forming subshrub from the mountains of Afghanistan, rarely grown outside botanical collections. It needs sharp drainage, full sun and dry conditions, much like other spiny cushion plants of its genus.
Acantholimon catenatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. The native range of this species is Afghanistan (Ghorat). It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the temperate biome.
It was first described in 1974 by Austrian botanists and phytogeographers, Karl Heinz Rechinger and Helene Schiman-Czeika.
Acantholimon acanthobryum · Acantholimon acerosum · Acantholimon acmostegium · Acantholimon aegaeum · Acantholimon afanassievii · Acantholimon agropyroideum · Acantholimon ahangarense · Acantholimon akaydinii · Acantholimon alaicum · Acantholimon alatavicum · Acantholimon alavae · Acantholimon albanicum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acantholimon catenatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
