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Carlina salicifolia is a low, shrubby perennial thistle from the Canary Islands and Madeira, growing to about 1 m on cliffs and rocky slopes. It thrives in dry, sunny, well-drained conditions and is best treated as a drought-tolerant rock-garden or xeric plant.
Carlina salicifolia is a species of thistle native to the Canary Islands and Madeira.
It ranges throughout much of the island of Madeira on cliffs and rocky slopes; also on Porto Santo and on the Desertas. It is native to all of the Canary Islands where it is common on cliffs in the upper xerophytic and forest zones 200–1600 m. It is very rare on Lanzarote found in the Famara mountain range and on Fuerteventura found in the Jandia area which covers the southwestern mountainous part of the island.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carlina salicifolia 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.
