Acantholimon puberulum

Description

Acantholimon puberulum is a species of flowering plant. It was first described by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Bal. Acantholimon puberulum belongs to the genus Acantholimon, and family Plumbaginaceae. Acantholimon is a genus of flowering plants. Acantholimon belongs to the family Plumbaginaceae. The Plumbaginaceae is related to flowering plants. Plumbaginaceae belongs to the order Caryophyllales, genus Magnoliopsida, genus Tracheophyta, and plant kingdom. The family Plumbaginaceae includes 1136 genera, according to the Catalog of Life. Acantholimon (prickly thrift) is a genus of small flowering plants within the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae. They are distributed from southeastern Europe to central Asia and also in South America, but also cultivated elsewhere in rock gardens. The evergreen subshrubs are generally cushion to mat-forming, with densely tufted shoots bearing mostly awl (long, pointed spike) to needle or grass-like, prickle to spine-tipped hard-textured leaves. They have shortish, simple or branched flower stems which can be loose or dense. The summer-borne flowers are composed of a funnel-shaped calyx, usually with a flared membranous margin, and five spreading petals.