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Galactites tomentosus

Galactites tomentosus

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitAnnual/Biennial
Growth—

Galactites tomentosus Succeeds in ordinary garden soil[1]. Based on the plants natural habitats, it should also succeed in dry soils and is likely to require a sunny position[PFAF].

Propagation

Seed - sow early spring in situ[1]. Cite as: Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2026-02-21. <temperate.theferns.info/plant/Galactites+tomentosus>

Pollinators

Insects

References

  1. [1]RHS Dictionary of Plants plus Supplement. 1956 — F. Chittendon. · Oxford University Press · 1951 · ISBN - ↩︎Comprehensive listing of species and how to grow them. Somewhat outdated, it has been replaced in 1992 by a new dictionary (see [ 200 ]).
  2. [2]Inventario Español de los Conocimientos Tradicionales Relaticos a la Biodiversidad, Fase II (1) — Santayana M.P. de, et al (Editors) · Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambient; · 2018 · ISBN 978-84-491-1472-4 ↩︎
  3. [3]Flowers of Greece and the Balkans. — Polunin. O. · Oxford University Press · 1980 · ISBN 0-19-217626-9 ↩︎A good pocket flora, it also lists quite a few plant uses.
  4. [4]Flowers of the Mediterranean. — Polunin. O. and Huxley. A. · Hogarth Press · 1987 · ISBN 0-7012-0784-1 ↩︎A very readable pocket flora that is well illustrated. Gives some information on plant uses.
  5. [5]Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. — Hedrick. U. P. · Dover Publications · 1972 · ISBN 0-486-20459-6 ↩︎Lots of entries, quite a lot of information in most entries and references.
  6. [6]Plants for Human Consumption. — Kunkel. G. · Koeltz Scientific Books · 1984 · ISBN 3874292169 ↩︎An excellent book for the dedicated. A comprehensive listing of Latin names with a brief list of edible parts.
  7. [7]Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. — Facciola. S. · Kampong Publications · 1990 · ISBN 0-9628087-0-9 ↩︎Excellent. Contains a very wide range of conventional and unconventional food plants (including tropical) and where they can be obtained (mainly N. American nurseries but also research institutes and a lot of other nurseries from around the world.
  8. [8]Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World. — Tanaka. T. & Nakao S. · Keigaku Publishing; Tokyo · 1976 · ISBN - ↩︎The most comprehensive list of edible plants I've come across. Only the briefest entry for each species, though, and some of the entries are more than a little dubious. Not for the casual reader.
  9. [9]Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants: Volume 7, Flowers — Lim T.K. · Springer Science+Business Media; Dordrecht · 2014 · http://10.1007/978-94-007-7395-0_43 · ISBN 978-94-007-7394-3 ↩︎
  10. [10]Medicinal plants and their traditional uses in Kabylia (Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) — Rachid Meddour, Ouahiba Meddour-Sahar · 2015 · http://10.48347/IMIST.PRSM/ajmap-v1i2. · ISBN 2458-5920 ↩︎
  11. [PFAF]Plants for a Future — pfaf.org ↩︎