Authors: Wall.  

Botanical Description

including A. primuloides. Loosely mat-forming and stoloniferous, well grown plants exceeding 30cm in width. Stolons red. Winter rosettes dense and white woolly, 1cm or more across. Summer rosettes 3cm or more in diameter composed of spreading, elliptic leaves, lightly covered with short downy hairs. Flowers 7-9mm wide, bright pink to carmine with a greenish-yellow eye, in compact umbels on 4-10cm tall, hairy stems. This is a variable species in all its characters and some entities have been classified as A. primuloides. From a garden point of view however, the two species are inseparable. Several cultivars are listed by nurserymen but they are much alike. It is one of the easiest and most rewarding of the species suitable for rock garden and raised beds. Kashmir to western China, in the mountains above 2700m, on stable screes, rocky slopes and in open woodland.

a, A. lactea; b, A. rotundifolia; c, A. sarmentosa; d, A. villosa;