Rhodiola Rosea

As per ICN: Description (according to H. Ohba in IHSP, 2003) : Dioecious, 5 – 50 cm tall. Rhizomes cylindrical to long obconical, branched when well developed, 1 – 2 cm in diameter. Flowering stems 1 – 3 (-4 or more), 1 – 6 mm in diameter, glabrous, smooth, pale green, sometimes glaucous. Leaves remote throughout, widely spreading, sessile, oblong or obovate to oblanceolate or ovate (0,4-) 1 – 3 (-4) x (0,3-) 0,6 – 1,7 (-2) cm, pale green, tip often tinged red, ± glaucous beneath, glabrous, smooth, tip round to acute, base shallowly cordate to truncate or round, sometimes amplexicaul, margin nearly entire to irregularly and sparsely serrulate. Inflorescences 25- to 50- (to 70-) flowered, 1 – 2 (-3) x 2 – 4 (-5) cm in diameter, pedicels < 2 mm, smooth. Flowers 3 – 7 mm in diameter, calyx 2 – 2,5 mm, glabrous, lobes linear-subulate to narrowly triangular, 1,8 – 2,3 mm (male) or 2 – 2,7 mm (female), ascending, petals yellow-green, linear to narrowly oblong (male) or linear-subulate (female), 2,5 – 3 (-3.5) mm (male) or 2,2 – 2,5 mm (female), widely spreading (male) or suberect (female); stamens longer than the petals; filaments yellow, (3,5) 4 – 5 mm; anthers yellow.

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  Full sun to partial shade

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  Very little water

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  Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

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  All soil conditions