Lewisia cotyledon
Siskiyou lewisia, Cliff Maids, Cliff-maids, Cliff Maids.
Description
Compact perennial herb with a ground cover habit, suitable for creating dense groups in flowerbeds, tubs and planters; also widely used to decorate rock gardens. It is highly hardy, withstanding the drought heat of summer but also the cold of winter during which it goes into vegetative rest. Appreciated for its luxuriant flowering that occurs throughout the spring-summer period until autumn with a profusion of flowers carried in inflorescences of bright, bright colours that emerge from the foliage gathered in rosettes. It requires no special cultivation care.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Montiaceae
- Genus
- Lewisia
- Species
- Lewisia cotyledon
Synonyms (2)
- Calandrinia cotyledon
- Oreobroma cotyledon
