Rosularia alpestris (Kar. & Kir.) A. Boriss.

Root elongated tuberous, branched. Rosulate leaves, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, margin sparsely ciliate, 1.5-5 x 0.3-1 cm. Flowering stems 5-16.5 cm high, glabrous, deciduous. Cauline leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 6-14 x 0.2-0.4 mm. Inflorescence corymbose, many-flowered, terminal. Flowers 6-8 merous, small, glabrous, pedicel 1-6 mm long. Calyx 6-8 lobed, lobes ovate, green, connate at the base, fleshy, glabrous, acute, 2-4.5 x 0.8-1.2 mm. Corolla 6-8 lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate, aristate, connate, white to light purple, membranaceous, 5-9 x 1-2.5 mm. Stamens 12-16, in two whorls, shorter than and adnate to the petals, 3.5-5.5 mm long. Nectar scales square, 0.5-2 x 0.5-2.5 mm. Carpels free, 2.5-4 x 1-2 mm, style slender 1-1.5 mm long, stigma capitate. Follicles 6-8, erect, free, 4-6 x 1-2 mm. Seeds 13-40 per follicle, ellipsoid, 0.5-1 x 0.1-0.2 mm, small, brown, with longitudinal striae.

Leafy rosettes form a dense carpet. Rosette leaves elongate-lanceolate, 2.0-3.5 cm x 0.5 cm. Flowering leafy stems lateral, 3.0-8.0 (13) cm. Inflorescence an umbel-like panicle, with small white or pink flowers. V - evergreen plants. Fl - June or July. Fr - July or August. P - easly by division and by seed. Can grow in full sun and also in shady sites. Well suited to the rock garden. Z 5 (4). New.

Rootstock to 1.5 cm thick. Rosette 1.5-3 cm in diam.; rosette leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong, (9-)15-25(-30) × (2-)3-6 mm, glabrous or very sparsely glandular, apex acuminate. Flowering stem axillary from rosette leaves, erect or ascending, 5-12(-15) cm, leafy, glabrous; stem sessile, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, leaves flat, 5-10 × 2-2.5 mm, adaxially glabrous, margin hispidulous-ciliate distally, apex acuminate. Inflorescences cymose-corymbiform, 2-12(-20)-flowered, glabrous; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers 6-8-merous; pedicel shorter than corolla on proximal flowers but elongating on distal ones. Sepals lanceolate, ca. 1/2 as long as corolla, glabrous, veins 3, apex acute to acuminate. Corolla white, or reddish with purple or red abaxial keel, 6-9 mm; lobes basally connate, oblong-lanceolate, veins 3, apex reflexed and acute. Stamens 12-16, shorter than corolla. Nectar scales suborbicular. Follicles 2.5-3.5 mm, apex beaked; beak filiform. Seeds numerous, ovoid. Fl. Jun-Jul.

Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Kazakstan, Kirghizstan, Uzbekistan, China (Xizang).

Central Asia (Tien Shan, Pamiro Alay, Dzungarskiy Alatau) and western China. On the gravelly soil, in rocky places, on cliffs at 1,500-3,000 m.

Xinjiang, Xizang [Russia].

Fl.Per.: July-August.

Grows from 3300-3800 m on slopes, rocks and crevices.

Scrub-covered slopes, rock crevices; 1500-5000 m.

Umbilicus alpestris Karelin & Kirilov, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 15: 354. 1842; Rhodiola durisii (Raymond-Hamet) S. H. Fu; Sedum durisii Raymond-Hamet; S. olgae Regel & Schmalhausen ex Regel; S. schlagintweitii Fröderström; S. umbilicoides Regel; Sempervivella acuminata (Decaisne) A. Berger; Sempervivum acuminatum Decaisne.

Rosularia alpestris là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Crassulaceae. Loài này được (Kar. & Kir.) Boriss. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1939.

长叶瓦莲（学名：Rosularia alpestris），为景天科瓦莲属下的一个植物种。