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Globularia alypum

Globularia alypum
Photo: "pastilletes"/Joan Simon, Barcelona, España, CC BY-SA 2.0

Globularia alypum is a small evergreen Mediterranean shrub with blue globe-shaped flower heads, common in dry limestone scrub. It grows best in full sun in well-drained, lime-rich soil and tolerates drought once established.

Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little or no extra water.
Soil
Well-drained, alkaline or calcareous soil; gritty mix is fine.
Temperature
Hardy to about -10 °C; protect young plants from prolonged frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Medit.
Climate
subtropical

About

Globularia alypum, the Alypo globe daisy or shrubby globularia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, with a Mediterranean distribution. A shrub that is often co-dominant in the calcareous shrublands in which it occurs, it is used as a purgative.

Other Globularia plants

Heart-leaf Globe Daisy · Globe Flowers

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Globularia alypum 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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