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rarely more than 10cm across and often only half this. Rosettes 1.5-2.5cm wide, formed of spreading, bright green elliptic leaves. Flowers about 5mm in diameter, white with a yellow eye, short-stalked and singly from the leaf axils, three to six per rosette. Italy, in the central Apennines, above 2500m in limestone rock crevices. Tends to be short-lived in cultivation, but produces plenty of seed and self sows itself under raised or scree bed conditions.
a, A. alpina; b, A. chaemajasme; c, A. ciliata; d, A. cylindrica; e, A. helvetica; f, A. mathildae; g, A. pubescens; h, A. pyrenaica; i, A vandellii; i, A. villosa;