Family | Asteraceae |
Description | Perennial herb ranging from upright to sprawling. |
Flowering time | summer |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Widespread in a large range of communities |
Soil types | Wide range |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Fast coloniser of bare and/or skeletal soils and therefore a useful species for direct seeding on hostile sites. A major understorey species in many habitats. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Attractive and widely grown. |
-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 | 2000 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none required |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known |
-direct seeding | easy |
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