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Androsace helvetica
Swiss Rockjasmine is a small, cushion-forming alpine subshrub from limestone rocks in the Alps and central Pyrenees. It is grown in rock gardens and alpine troughs, and it needs sharp drainage, full sun, and cool conditions.
Androsace helvetica is a plant in the family Primulaceae. Androsace helvetica is widely distributed in the Alps, where it is absent from areas with siliceous bedrock and is rare and scattered in the south-eastern Alps east of the Dolomites. Several occurrences are known from the central Pyrenees. It is a characteristic species of alpine and subnival communities on dry and exposed limestone rocks or calcareous schists. It forms dense, often hemispherical cushions, with imbricate dead leaves below the leaf rosette and exclusively simple hairs on the leaves.
Androsace albana · Alpine Rock Jasmine · Mackenzie River Douglasia · Androsace brevis · Androsace delphinensis · Filiform rockjasmine · Androsace lactea · Cliff Douglasia · Pink Rock Jasmine · Androsace lanuginosa · Androsace mathildae · Snow Dwarf Primrose
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androsace helvetica 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.
