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Daphne cneorum
Also called Garland Flower
Rose daphne is a low, spreading evergreen shrub from the mountains of central and southern Europe, grown for its very fragrant pink spring flowers. It needs sharp drainage and a sunny, cool position, as it resents wet feet and heat.
Daphne cneorum, the rose daphne or garland flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, native across the mountains of central and southern Europe from the Pyrenees east through the Alps, the Apennine, Carpathian and the Balkan Peninsula mountains, and locally in lowlands further north and east to Ukraine and westernmost Russia. It is a prostrate spreading evergreen shrub growing to 50 cm (20 in) high, with downy stems bearing oblanceolate to spatulate, hairless, evergreen leaves 10–20 mm long and 3–5 mm wide, and highly fragrant pink flowers in dense clusters of 6–8 together in spring. All parts of the plant are poisonous to humans.
Daphne cneorum is popular for growing in alpine and rock gardens for its attractive, sweetly scented flowers; it requires moist, but well-drained soil.
In the mountains of central and western Europe, Daphne cneorum occurs in meadows and stony ground on limestone in mountains at altitudes up to 2150 m altitude or more. Further north and east, with colder climates, it occurs at lower altitudes, often on sandy soil; in northeastern France in the Pays de Bitche in the Vosges at 250–300 m altitude (where its survival depends on protection from commercial forestry intensification by land use as a military training ground); and in Ukraine, in the Lviv and Rivne areas and in the Dnipro valley in the Kyiv area where altitudes are around 100–200 m, typically in open pine, and mixed pine-oak and pine-beech forest habitats. Other species found in these habitats include Vaccinium myrtillus, Lycopodium annotinum, Pteridium aquilinum, Maianthemum bifolium and Trientalis europaea. Daphne cneorum is typically found in well-lit patches of rocky soil, the foundation of which is generally carbonate rock.
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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.
