Category: Rarium | Sub-Category: Alpine and Rock Garden
Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Leontopodium alpinum
Family: (Asteraceae)
(P) to 8″. Europe. “Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me. Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me…” The large, distinctive, star-like flowerheads are formed from tight terminal clusters of small, whitish yellow, dense florets surrounded by white, petal-like, woolly bracts. They are held on short, erect stems above a small, tufted clump of linear basal leaves. Grows well for us outside in an alpine trough. Well-drained soil. Sun. 4 & T3