''Androsace lactea'', the milkwhite rock jasmine, is an

alpine plant Alpine plants are plants that grow in an alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line. There are many different plant species and taxon, taxa that grow as a plant community in these alpine tundra. These include perennial g ...

, in the family

Primulaceae The Primulaceae ( ), commonly known as the primrose family (but not related to the Onagraceae, evening primrose family), are a family (biology), family of Herbaceous plant, herbaceous and woody flowering plants including some favourite garden pla ...

Description

''Androsace lactea'' can reach a height of . This plant produces rosettes of leaves with a diameter of about . The leaves are shining dark green, linear or lightly elliptic. Flowers are white with a yellow centre, in diameter, with broadly notched petals. They bloom from May to August.

Distribution

''Androsace lactea'' is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the

Alps The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. ...

and

Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains ...

Habitat

This plant prefers limestone rocks, screes and meadows, at an elevation of above sea level.

References

*Pignatti S. - Flora d'Italia (3 voll.) - Edagricole - 1982 *Tutin, T.G. et al. - Flora Europaea, second edition - 1993

External links

BiolibLuirig.altervistaAlpine Plant Encyclopaedia
lactea Flora of Middle Europe Flora of the Alps Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora of the Carpathians {{Primulaceae-stub