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Authors: Sims  

Botanical Description

Forms a loose grey hairy cushion superficially resembling A. suberosa with which it is often confused, but leaves in whorls of six and pink flowers in involucrate heads. Mountain rocks of the Peloponnese. Well established in cultivation, requiring protection from winter wet or an alpine house.