Common name
English: Prickly Thrift
German: Stechnelke
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Plumbaginales (12)
Family: Plumbaginaceae (12)(family description)
Genus: Acantholimon (1)
Epithet: glumaceum Boiss (1)
Synonym: Acantholimon hohenackeri Ledeb.
glumaceum => having glumes
hohenackeri => in honor of Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker (1798-1874), Swiss-German botanist and missionary
Characteristics
Climate: temperate
Habitat: xerophytic
Habit: shrub
Flower colour: violet