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Botanical Description

of gardens. This name appears not to be botanically valid. The plant it represents in cultivation is somewhat like A. lactiflora. It is an annual with a flat rosette 4-6cm across. Leaves oblanceolate with a few marginal teeth in the upper half. Flowers 8mm in diameter, white wit h a yellow throat, each one with a stalk 3-4cm long, several gathered into an umbel on a stem 4-6cm in height. One to several umbels arise from each rosette. Central Asia, but exact provenance appears not to be recorded. Although individual umbels are very open and rather graceless, the overall effect of several plants in full bloom is rather charming. It seems to thrive best in a scree or raised bed and usually self-sows freely.