Flax-leaved Gauchheil
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The linseed Gauchheil ( Anagallis monelli ) is a species of plant from the genus Gauchheil ( Anagallis ).
description
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Vegetative characteristics
The Leinblättrige Gauchheil is a short-lived, perennial herbaceous plant that reaches a size of 10 to 50, rarely up to 70 centimeters. The stem is lignified at the base and is erect, ascending or prostrate, but does not take root at the nodes. The leaves are opposite, arranged in threes in whorls or, less often, alternate. The simple leaf blade is linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or elliptical.
Generative characteristics
The flowers are hermaphroditic. The blue or, more rarely, brick-red or white corolla is wheel-shaped with a diameter of 15 to 25 millimeters. The petals are smooth or slightly notched at the edge, with glandular hairs made up of four cells of equal size.
The flowering period extends from March to July in the natural habitat and from May to September in garden culture.
Wild plants are diploid with a chromosome number of 2n = 20. In culture there are also large-flowered varieties with a tetraploid chromosome set of 2n = 4x = 40.
Occurrence
Anagallis monelli occurs in the western Mediterranean region (from Portugal to southern Italy and from Morocco to Tripolitania ) in dry, open places, fields and roadsides, fallow land and sandy coasts.
Systematics
The first publication of Anagallis monelli was made in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum . An important synonym for Anagallis monelli L. is Anagallis linifolia L.
The subspecies Anagallis monelli subsp. maritima (Mariz) M.Laínz (densely leafy plants of the coast) and Anagallis monelli subsp. linifolia (L.) Maire (especially narrow-leaved plants) are not clearly differentiated from typical plants and can be viewed as local variants.
use
The linseed Gauchheil is rarely used as an ornamental plant for summer flower beds. It has been in culture at least since the beginning of the 17th century .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Antonio Pujadas: Anagallis. In: Santiago Castroviejo, Carlos Aedo, Manuel Laínz, Ramón Morales, Félix Muñoz Garmendia, Gonzalo Nieto Feliner, Jorge Paiva (eds.): Flora Ibérica. Plantas vasculares de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Vol. V. Ebenaceae – Saxifragaceae . Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid 1997, ISBN 84-00-07641-9 , p. 57-62 ( floraiberica.es [PDF]).
- ↑ a b c d e f Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. tape 5 : Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants . Springer, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 , pp. 282 .
- ↑ Ulrika Manns, Arne A. Anderberg: Character Evolution in Anagallis (Myrsinaceae) inferred from Morphological and Molecular Data. In: Systematic Botany. Volume 32, No. 1, 2007, pp. 166-179, doi: 10.1600 / 036364407780360210 .
- ↑ Syed Irtifaq Ali: Primulaceae. In: Syed Irtifaq Ali, Saiyad Masudal Hasan Jafri (ed.): Flora of Libya. Volume 1, Al Faateh University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Tripolis 1976, p. 10.
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum. Volume 1, Lars Salvius, Stockholm 1753, p. 148 ( digitized version ).
