Poison monkshood
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The poison aconite ( Aconitum anthora ) is a plant type from the genus aconite ( Aconitum ).
Common names
It is also known as the pale yellow monkshood, poisonous, antidote and fine leaf monkshood. The common names Herzwurz, Heilgift, Giel Sturmhott ( Transylvania ) and Arabischer Zitwer are only used regionally .
description
The poison monkshood grows as a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 25 to 150 centimeters. The stiff, upright stem is bluish-green and hairy. The root is beet-shaped thickened. The hand-shaped split stem leaves are five to seven-part to the base, the sections are two- to three-pinnate and have narrow, linear, 1 to 2 millimeter wide tips.
The pale yellow flowers are zygomorphic and softly hairy. The hemispherical helmet is about as high as it is wide. The follicles have thick and soft hairs.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 32.
Occurrence
The distribution area includes the Alps, Spanish Mountains, Pyrenees , Corbières , Jura , Istria, Croatia, Hungary, Moravia and Galicia. In the Alps themselves, rarely found in the Maritime Alps to Graian Alps and the southern limestone mountains.
In Austria , the poison monkshood is seldom to very rarely found in the federal states of Lower Austria and Styria from the colline to montane altitude .
Dry pastures and stony lawns on limestone soils are preferred as locations. The poison monkshood often grows in blue-grass lawns.
Origin of name
The Artepipheton anthora is derived from the Greek anti (against) and Ranunculus thora , the very poisonous shield-leaf buttercup (colloquially also known as the poison buttercup), as the plant was believed to be an effective antidote to the buttercup's poison. The popular names and the designation Aconitum salutiferum also refer to this fact.
The root was also used as an antidote for poisoning with other monkshood species. However, like all monkshood species, the plant is very poisonous.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Manfred A. Fischer , Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 .
- ^ Carl Jessen : The German folk names of plants , published by Philipp Cohen Hannover 1882, page 8
- ^ Muer, Angerer: Alpine Plants , Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-3374-1
- ↑ Aconitum anthora at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Dieter Heß: Alpine flowers - recognition - understanding - protection , Eugen Ulmer publishing house, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3243-5
- ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 (reprint ISBN 3-937872-16-7 ).
Web links
- Aconitum anthora L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved October 18, 2015.