Rock candytuft

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Rock candytuft
Rock candytuft (Iberis saxatilis)

Rock candytuft ( Iberis saxatilis )

Systematics
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Order : Cruciferous (Brassicales)
Family : Cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae)
Tribe : Iberideae
Genre : Candytuft ( Iberis )
Type : Rock candytuft
Scientific name
Iberis saxatilis
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The rock candytuft ( Iberis saxatilis ) is an evergreen subshrub with white flowers that grows in flat cushions from the family of the cruciferous plants (Brassicaceae). The natural range is in Europe. The species is often used as an ornamental shrub because of the decorative flowers.

description

The rocks loop flower is an evergreen , prostrate to 15 centimeters high half bush forms the small, flat pad. The branches are emerging and fragile. The leaf blade of the foliage leaves is simple, fleshy, 1.5 to 2 centimeters long, up to 2 millimeters wide, linear, somewhat pointed, glabrous or often ciliate on the edge and dark green.

Inflorescences

The white flowers are terminal, 1.5 to 2 centimeters long Trugdolden arranged, which are extended to fruit ripening out. The species blooms in May, and there may be a second bloom in autumn.

The chromosome number is 2n = 22.

Distribution and location requirements

The natural range is in Europe in Spain, France, Switzerland, on the Balkan Peninsula , in Romania and in the Crimea . The rock candytuft grows in steppes , dry forests and cool, moist forests on moderately dry to fresh, slightly acidic to alkaline, sandy-loamy to loamy, nutrient-rich but also rocky and shallow soils in sunny to light-shady locations. The species is frost hardy . The distribution area is assigned to the winter hardiness zone 6a with mean annual minimum temperatures of −23.3 to −20.6 ° C (−10 to −5 ° F).

Systematics

The Rock candytuft ( Iberis saxatilis ) is a kind from the kind of Iberis ( Iberis ) in the family of the cabbage family (Brassicaceae). There the genus is assigned to the tribe Iberideae. It was first scientifically described by Carl von Linné in 1756 . The generic name Iberis chosen by him is derived from the Latin hiberis for a plant family that is considered poisonous and similar to cress. The specific epithet saxatilis comes from Latin and means "living on or on rocks".

Synonyms of the species are: Biauricula saxatilis (L.) Bubani ; Iberis latealata Porta & Rigo ex Porta ; Iberis vermiculata Willd. ; Iberis zanardinii Vis.

use

The rock candytuft is often used as an ornamental plant because of its decorative flowers .

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 346.
  • Jost Fitschen : Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 534 .
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 346 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 534
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 346
  3. ↑ a b Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 534
  4. ↑ Jaakko Jalas, Juha Suominen: Atlas florae europaeae . Volume 11 Cruciferae (Ricotia to Raphanus). Page 169–170, Helsinki 1996. ISBN 951-9108-11-4
  5. ^ Iberis . In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed September 7, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b Iberis saxatilis . In: The Plant List. Retrieved September 7, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 302
  8. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 562

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