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Psephellus bellus

Psephellus bellus
Photo: This picture is a work by Emmanuel Douzery. Please credit this with: Picture : Emmanuel Douzery in the immediate vicinit, CC BY-SA 4.0

Psephellus bellus is a low, evergreen perennial from the Daisy family, native to Anatolia and the Transcaucasus. It is grown as a slow-spreading ground cover, valued for its silvery-grey foliage and purplish-pink flowers in spring.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, gritty or rocky soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
Hardy to around -15 °C; protect from prolonged wet cold.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Transcaucasus

About

Psephellus bellus is a species in the genus Psephellus, subtribe Centaureinae, found in Anatolia and Transcaucasia.

It is an evergreen plant, with gray-green to silvery imparipinnate leaves showing elliptic to ovate leaflets.

Other Psephellus plants

Persian Cornflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psephellus bellus 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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