A. annae - in general

May 2008

Sempervivum annae was first described by M. Z. Gurgenitze, Botanical institut Tbilisi, in 1969. Plant comes from Russia - Caucasus Mountains.

Species was named annae in honour of Anna S. Schchian (1905-1990) Russian botanist, explorer of Caucas.

Sempervivum annae has red flowers.

Locally collected plants come from:
OMALA

The place where Sempervivum annae was found, is called OMALO. It is in the Tushetia Mountains in Georgia.

Hm hm, everyone writes Omala (ending with A). So this mistake is quite common!

Please introduce the habitat at forum Geographical names. Thank you!

Sempervivum annae is native to rocky places, meadows and openings mainly of subalpine and alpine belts on Northern Caucasus and Transcaucasus.

You can find it in Georgia, like we said before, in regions:
- Svaneti (north-western part of country)
- Tush-Pshav-Khevsureti.

Description:

Diamether of the rosette: 3 -5 cm

Leaves green, velvety hairy with dark red tips

Flower: light rosy with purple stripes in the middle of petals

Lenght of stolons: 20 cm, light brown in colour

Flower diamether: up to 2 cm