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Jurinea moschus

Grandfather's Rose

Family AsteraceaeGenus Jurinea

Flat rosettes of gray-green leaves pressed to gritty ground, each with a dense purple thistle head at its center.
The whole plantZeynel CebeciCC BY-SA 4.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
PurpleRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Transcaucasus, TürkiyeGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 3 days to germinate.

33% germination in 3 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Jurinella p. 162Public domain
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Jurinella (Dipsaceae). J. moschus germ. 70(1/3 on 3rd d).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Jurinella p. 162. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

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