Authors: Chiov.  

Botanical Description

A tightly cushion-forming species up to 15cm across. Rosettes 5-10mm wide, densely starry hairy giving them a silvery appearance. Leaves linear, spathulate or elliptic. Flowers 5-8mm in diameter, white with a yellow eye, short stalked, one to three per rosette. Alps, Apennines, Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada (Spain) and Atlas Mountains above 2000m, in non-calcareous or igneous rock fissures, often in shaded sites but also stands full exposure. In its early years a relatively easy and popular species which can be grown outside in vertical crevices, or a scree bed, ideally with winter rain protection using a sheet of glass.

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;