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Acantholimon zakirovii

Acantholimon zakirovii
Photo: Natalya Yurevna Beshko, CC BY 4.0

Acantholimon zakirovii is a small cushion-forming subshrub from the mountains of Uzbekistan, belonging to the prickly thrift family (Plumbaginaceae). It is a specialist alpine plant and is rarely grown outside botanical collections, so care is based on the needs of related Acantholimon species.

Family
Plumbaginaceae (Plumbagin family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the mix dry fully between waterings, and avoid winter wet.
Soil
Very free-draining gritty mix, such as sand, grit and a little loam.
Temperature
Tolerates cold well, roughly -15 to 30 °C; protect from prolonged wet heat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Uzbekistan
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Acantholimon zakirovii is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. The native range of this species is Uzbekistan. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the subalpine or subarctic biome and was described by Beshko.

Other Acantholimon plants

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 zakirovii 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.

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