Ερημογόνη η βαμμένη
Etymology of Eremogone picta: The name of the genus, "Eremogene", derives from the Ancient Greek "ἔρημος" [erimos or eremos], meaning "desert(ed), uninhabited, remote, abandoned" and ''γόνος" [gonos], meaning "offspring", hence "offspring of the uninhabited (place)", as the plant that was the reason for the genus to be named as such was considered to grow on deserted, remote, uninhabited, abandoned ground. Latin "picta" means "painted", referring to the fuchsia color that appears on the flowers' white petals (previously it was categorized within the "Minuartia" genus and it distinguished from the other Minuartia species, which also bore white flowers, that's why it was called "painted"; now as an Eremogone plant it keeps carrying that characteristic epithet).
This is the only Eremogone kind (a species) in the wild Cypriot habitat.
Eremogone picta is encountered all around Cyprus except for the northeastern part (the whole Karpasia peninsula). It appears up to an altitude of 1225 metres. Its flowering period is between January and May.
