Is the label correct?

[JohnnyD]

This smashing little plant, labelled Androsace albana, has come back for at least its' third year, even though A.albana is said to be annual or biennial.
Can anyone confirm it's true identity please?
JohnnyD

[ArdfearnAli]

Looks very similar to what I have as Androsace semperviviodes. I also grew from seed a couple of years ago a plant listed as  Draba rigida which has turned out to be Androsace rigida wich is similar as well.

Alasdair

[Maggi Young]

Not the correct foliage for A. albana - see this photo from David Nicholson in the forum



....this from the forum, by Josef Lemmens :


and this from Zdenek Rehacek's site

 

[JohnnyD]

Ask a question and sixteen minutes later comes the right answer. Brilliant. Thanks Ali and Maggi.
J.

[Michael J Campbell]

Looks a bit like Androsace himalaica but hard to tell from picture.

[Lesley Cox]

I don't think it is A sempervivoides anyway, which, in my experience is always a deep pink and the rosettes very tight and compact, making a good cushion. I have two forms one with greyer rosettes and slighter more lavender flowers (but still pink) and the other greener, a little larger in all parts and the flowers a rich almost vulgar, sugar pink. Both excellent plants. Here is the latter but not showing the flowers to advantage.

[Tim Ingram]

A. himalaicawas my first thought too and it certainly fits the description in Duncan Lowe and George Smith's book - and himalaica was first described as a form of sempervivoides. Had this once and must grow it again - it looks a super plant in that scree. (albana doesn't look bad either - great picture from Jozef Lemmens).