Daphne alpina
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Daphne alpina' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Daphne acutiloba
- Daphne altaica
- Daphne aurantiaca
- Daphne bholua
- Daphne blagayana
- Daphne × burkwoodii
- Daphne caucasica
- Daphne cneorum
- Daphne collina
- Daphne genkwa
- Daphne giraldii
- Daphne × houtteana
- Daphne × hybrida
- Daphne jezoensis
- Daphne laureola
- Daphne mezereum
- Daphne × napolitana
- Daphne × neapolitana
- Daphne odora
- Daphne oleoides
- Daphne petraea
- Daphne pontica
- Daphne pseudomezereum
- Daphne retusa
- Daphne rodriguezii
- Daphne × rossetii
- Daphne sophia
- Daphne striata
- Daphne tangutica
A dwarf, deciduous shrub 6 to 18 in. high, with short, erect, downy twigs. Leaves oblanceolate, 1⁄2 to 13⁄4 in. long, 1⁄6 to 1⁄3 in. wide, often crowded towards the end of the shoot, grey-green, downy on both sides. Flowers white, fragrant, produced during May and June in terminal clusters of six to ten, the cylindrical, slender tube 1⁄3 in. long, downy outside; the four lobes lanceolate, pointed; fruit yellowish red, rather downy.
Native of the European Alps; in cultivation 1759. Suitable for the rock garden, especially in association with limestone, on which formation it is always found. A neat plant of no great beauty, but pleasing for its fragrance.