Authors: Lam.  

Botanical Description

Leaves 3-30cm long by 0.7-3cm wide, smooth, usually farinose, broadly oblong-lanceolate, sharply serrate to more or less entire. Flowers rose- pink to lilac with a paler eye, l-2cm across, in flattish umbels of eight to twenty on stems 8-40cm or more tall. Turkey to Iran at 2000-4000m., springs and streamisides above the tree-line. A relative of P. rosea but looking rather like P. denticulata. Very variable with five distinct subspecies; the dwarfest is ssp. olgae. Eastern Turkey to the Tien Shan and Pamir, including most of the Caucasus.