Family | Asteraceae |
Description | Perennial herb forming a low rounded mound |
Flowering time | spring-summer |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Widespread in many different grassland and woodland types. |
Soil types | Wide range from sandstone to heavy clay |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Very fast coloniser of bare and/or skeletal soils and therefore useful for direct seeding on hostile sites. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Only moderately attractive. |
-other values | |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | average |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 500 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | not required |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known |
-direct seeding | easy |
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