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Large rounded evergreen shrubs with the new growth covered by a dense woolly white indumentum.  This attractive feature is retained on the younger stems and undersides of the leaves where it matures into a pale fawn or tan color.  The late season flowers are deep pink to rose-purple with yellowish to brown spots.  An attractive and hardy species, relatively resistant to heat and drought.  Native to the Caucasus Mountains and adjacent NE Turkey.  Found from 2,800 to 7,500 ft. on rocky outcrops and the margins of spruce forests.

1976/376  BERG  (-25\R1\5).  Flowers pastel rose with darker lobes and gold-green flecks.

1977/319  T. McGuire  (H4).

1983/191  Mehlquist  (H4).  A very hardy species of normal height in this clone.

1983/193  MEH  (-25).  Flowers pastel rose with gold-green flecks.

1883/210  ACB:BON  (-25).  Flowers pink.

1994sd1053  RSBG  (-25?\R1\5).  Seedlings grown from 65/493 (Corsock) x 76/376 (Berg).  Dense white woolly indumentum with pink flowers in early summer.  Heat resistant.  A hardy and tough species.

2000sd390  RAS#078:RSBG  (-15\R1\3).  Attractive and hardy species with the thickest indumentum of any really hardy species.  The pink to rose-purple flowers appear in late spring or early summer.  Very nice foliage and new growth with a silvery or whitish, thick and wooly indumentum.  These are grown from seed collected wild by Richie Steffen at 7,000 ft. in Turkey.

2000sd395  RAS#086:RSBG  (-15\R1\3).  These are grown from seed collected wild by Richie Steffen at 5,850 ft. in NE Turkey from mounded plants growing in full sun.