Haberleas, like the closely related genus Ramonda, are excellent plants for shady places in the rock garden, crevices and the alpine house. Rosette- and clump-forming, they have thick, fleshy leaves and short-tubed flowers, smaller and less widely opening than those of Ramonda. If they get too dry in summer they shrivel up, but miraculously return to full health within a few days of being watered. See also the closely related genus Haberlea.

Haberlea rhodopensis is a splendid plant for a shady place, where it will make a large rosette of its leathery leaves, and produce several stems of violet flowers, a few to each stem.