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Androsace lanuginosa, the woolly rock jasmine, is a low trailing perennial from the western Himalaya that forms mats of grey-green hairy leaves and pink or lilac flowers in summer. It needs full sun to part shade and well-drained soil, and it is grown mainly in rock gardens and alpine beds.
Androsace lanuginosa, called the woolly rock jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Androsace, native to the western Himalaya. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The plant is composed of trailing stems that are reddish when young. They bear small, pointed, hairy, grey-green leaves. In the summer, the plant produces flowers made up of up to 15 florets, usually light pink with a dark pink eye or lilac with a yellow-green eye. A. lanuginosa grows well in most soils with full sun to part shade, and typically reaches about 10 centimeters tall and 30 centimeters wide. In the US, it is suitable for zones 5–8. It may be susceptible to aphids and leaf spot.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androsace lanuginosa 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.
