Description: Herbs, perennial, subpulvinate. Rhizome slender and many branched, with dense radical rosettes of sterile leaves and numerous flowering stems.
Habitat: Alpine grasslands, rocky screes, gravelly slopes, salt lake banks and shores; 3500-5600 m.
Form of cushion | F | Low cushion |
Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
Variability | 0 | No variability |
Root system | R | Rhizomes |
Woodiness | 0 | Herbaceaous |
Thorniness | 0 | No |
Succulence | 0 | No |
Flowers | 1 | Short peduncle |