Garden milkweed
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Garden Spurge ( Euphorbia peplus ) |
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The garden spurge ( Euphorbia peplus ) (not to be confused with Euphorbia Peplis !) Is a plant from the genus spurge ( Euphorbia ) in the family of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The garden milkweed is an annual herbaceous plant that reaches a height of 5 to 20 centimeters. The leaves are divided into a distinct petiole and leaf blade. The simple leaf blade is rounded to obovate with a blunt upper end and entire margins.
Generative characteristics
The envelope beaker is covered with conspicuously long-horned glands.
The capsule fruits have winged keels. The seeds have more or less rounded pits.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.
ingredients
Ingenol mebutate occurs in garden milkweed , which is used as a medicinal substance against z. B. the actinic keratosis is examined.
Occurrence
The garden milkweed is originally native to Europe and North Africa, but occurs almost worldwide as a neophyte . It grows in gardens, on fields and on ruderal sites . It thrives best on fresh to moderately dry, nutrient-rich clay soils . It grows in Central Europe as a character species of the Fumario-Euphorbion association, but also occurs in societies of the Caucalidion, Sisymbrion or Alliarion associations.
Systematics
The scientific name Euphorbia peplus was first published in 1753 by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum .
In Euphorbia peplus two varieties can be distinguished:
- Euphorbia peplus var. Minima DC. : It occurs in the Mediterranean area.
- Euphorbia peplus L. var. Peplus : It occurs in the temperate areas of Eurasia and in North Africa to Somalia .
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literature
- Siegmund Seybold : Flora of Germany and neighboring countries. A book for identifying vascular plants that grow wild and often cultivated . Founded by Otto Schmeil , Jost Fitschen . 93rd completely revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2006, ISBN 3-494-01413-2 .
- Hans-Joachim Zündorf, Karl-Friedrich Günther, Heiko Korsch, Werner Westhus (eds.): Flora of Thuringia. The wild fern and flowering plants of Thuringia . Weissdorn, Jena 2006, ISBN 3-936055-09-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Euphorbia peplis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas. 8th edition. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 . Page 640.
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Species Plantarum. Volume 1, Lars Salvius, Stockholm 1753, p. 456 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b c Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Euphorbia peplus. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved December 3, 2015.
Web links
- Garden milkweed . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
- Euphorbia peplus L., garden spurge. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
- Euphorbia peplus L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora .
- Distribution in the northern hemisphere from: Eric Hultén, Magnus Fries: Atlas of North European vascular plants. 1986, ISBN 3-87429-263-0 at Den virtuella floran. (swed.)
- Thomas Meyer: Data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )