Androsace kozo-poljanskii Credit: Tatyana Shulkina

Plant forms a cushion or a small mat. Rosette leaves overwintering, lanceolate, 7 mm x 1 mm, grey-green, densely silky-pubescent. Flower stalks 3-6 cm, hairy. Flowers 3 to 6 in umbels, 8-12 mm diam., pink-purple or milk-white. V - evergreen, new growth beginning in early spring, a second flush of leaves in summer (July). Fl - May-June, for three weeks but in southern regions April. Fr - June, July. P - by seed or cuttings. Requires a protective cover in northern regions. Z 5. New.

Caucasus. In alpine and subalpine regions, on rocky, chalky and steppe slopes and screes at 1,400-3,000 m.