Androsace mucronifolia - Small-Leaf Rock Jasmine

Small-Leaf Rock Jasmine is a lax clustered perennial with pretty pink flowers, growing in patches 10-18 cm or more broad, with runners. Flowers are pale pink with a red eye. Flowers are 6-7 mm across, petals obovate, 2.5-3 mm long, tip often notched, throat annulate. Anthers are less than 1 mm long. Sepal-cup is 1/2-1/3 rd divided, nearly spherical to bell-shaped, velvet-hairy; sepals 1.5-2 mm long, velvet-hairy, fringed with hairs. Flowering stem is 1.2-1.8 cm long, 2-6-flowered, glandular-velvet-hairy. Bracts are 2.5-4.5 mm long, broad lanceshaped-blunt, velvet-hairy-glandular, fringed with hairs, exceeding the flower-stalk. Stolons are 1 per node, up to 2 cm long, slender, brown to brownish-red, velvet-hairy to nearly hairless. Leaves are in dense rosettes 4-8 mm broad, pale green, 3-8 x 1.5-3 mm, oblong-lanceshaped to ovate-lanceshaped to nearly spoon-shaped, hairless, pointed to almost blunt, margin whitish, bristly-fringed with hairs, with a short sharp point. Capsule are ovaloid, remaining in the sepal-cup. Small-Leaf Rock Jasmine is is found in E. Afghanistan to W. Tibet and W. Himalaya, at altitudes of 3300-4700 m. Flowering: June-August.