Androsace alpina

Alps Man shield ( Androsace alpina)

The Alps Man shield ( Androsace alpina), and glacier - man tag, is a plant that belongs to the genus Androsace ( Androsace ) in the family of Primrose ( Primulaceae ).

Description

The Alps Man shield grows as a perennial herbaceous plant, forming a 1 to 3 inches high, loose turf or flat cushion. The plant parts are subjected to the two - to eight-pointed star hair. The arranged in rosettes leaves are at a length of 3 to 6 mm oblong- ovate to lanceolate and hairy only at the edge, top and bottom.

The individual flowers are short-stemmed and overtop the leaves hardly or only slightly. The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry and fünfzählig double perianth. The calyx is divided to the middle, with narrow lanceolate lobes. The crown has a diameter of 7 to 8 mm and is pink or white in any case with yellow throat ring.

The flowering period extends from June to August.

Occurrence

The Alps Man shield is endemic to the Alps, especially in the silicate chains, the Alps Man shield. The distribution area includes the area of the Dauphiné to Carinthia and Styria. It is missing in Bavaria. In Austria it is scattered to rare in the provinces of Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg (Upper Austria unexplained ) before.

As the site preferably kalkmeidende this plant moist, with long snow -covered soils, rubble and rock. It grows at altitudes 2200-4200 meters, making it one of the ten highest rising alpine plants. The Alps Man shield is eponymous for the Alps Mannsschild heap.

Trivial names

For this type there are in Austria, in the Pinzgau region of the Zillertal and also the common name Blue Speik.