Alpen-Edelweiß

created by Alex&Sempi at 17.03.2025

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Description

The Alpine edelweiss (Leontopodium nivale, also known as Leontopodium alpinum) is the only representative of the approximately 40 known edelweiss species of the genus Edelweiss (Leontopodium) native to Central Europe, which are widespread in the mountains of Europe and Asia. It is found in the Alps, the Carpathians and the Jura, where it settled after the last ice age as an immigrant from Asia. Alpine edelweiss belongs to the Asteraceae family and has a long tradition in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as a symbolic flower for Alpine culture, for example in the logo of the German Alpine Club and the mountain rescue service. The highly symbolic Alpine edelweiss is regarded as the alpine plant par excellence; the perennial herbaceous plants are easily recognizable by their dense white felt-like hairs on all parts above ground, and the dense inflorescences with their large bracts are reminiscent of small stars. It is not found on steep slopes, as legend has it, but much more frequently on meadows, lawns and alpine pastures in rocky environments on calcareous soils. In the Alps it grows at altitudes between 1800 and 3000 meters, sometimes even above the tree line. Alpine edelweiss grows as a horst-like, compact, perennial herbaceous perennial that creeps relatively close to the ground and grows up to 20 centimetres in height and width with flower heads up to eight centimetres in size with open inner strands. Reproduces either with a size of up to twelve centimeters intergrowing alpine edelweiss is particularly ideal with some strong fast roots, as it grows in a particularly ideal environment for them, it must be particularly useful.

Non hybrid

Frostproof