Authors: DC.  

Botanical Description

A cushion-forming species making plants to 10cm or more in width. Rosettes 9-12mm across, spreading and fairly loosely arranged. Leaves elliptic, soft green bearing a thin covering of simple or forked hairs. Flowers 6-10mm in diameter, white with a greenish or yellow eye, very short-stalked, one to five per rosette. Cultivated specimens vary greatly in floriferousness and are often wrongly named. Pyrenees and Alps above 2000m, mainly in stable screes and stony slopes, sometimes in Assured rock faces, both acid and alkaline. Some plants under this name are in reality hybrids with A. helvetica see A. X hybrida.

a, A. alpina; b, A. chaemajasme; c, A. ciliata; d, A. cylindrica; e, A. helvetica; f, A. mathildae; g, A. pubescens; h, A. pyrenaica; i, A vandellii; i, A. villosa;