Grove Speedwell

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Grove Speedwell
Grove speedwell (Veronica sublobata)

Grove speedwell ( Veronica sublobata )

Systematics
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Plantain family (Plantaginaceae)
Tribe : Veroniceae
Genre : Speedwell ( Veronica )
Type : Grove Speedwell
Scientific name
Veronica sublobata
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The grove speedwell or hedges speedwell ( Veronica sublobata ) also shallow lobes speedwell or called Ohnlappen speedwell, is a plant from the genus of speedwell ( Veronica ) within the family of plantain plants (Plantaginaceae). It is common in Europe.

description

Sheet top and bottom
Hairy bract, pedicel and fruit with pyramidal tapering sepals. The fruit stalk is 3–4 times as long as the calyx and, in addition to the hairline, often protruding hairs.
A: flower, B: flower open, ovary and style are visible, C: single-line, hairy peduncle, triangular-heart-shaped, ciliate and bare sepal, D: pale purple crown, E: crown with only indistinctly contrasting white center
The seeds are reddish brown. The edge of the mouth is somewhat whitish, shiny and translucent.
Sepal margin with hairs
Seed cross-section: the edge of the mouth is strongly rolled inwards.

Vegetative characteristics

The Hain speedwell is an annual herbaceous plant that can reach heights of up to 15 centimeters. The usually ascending stems are 5 to 50 centimeters long and clearly hairy.

Generative characteristics

The flowering period extends from March to May. The bracts are thin and weakly five-lobed, with the middle lobes longer than wide. The long-stalked flowers stand individually in the upper leaf axils.

With a diameter of 4 to 5 millimeters, the relatively small flowers have a double flower envelope . The sepals are triangular-heart-shaped and have noticeably long eyelashes. The corollas are pale purple in color. The stylus is 0.3 to 0.8 millimeters long. The flower and fruit stalk show a single line of hair and are often hairy in addition. The fruit stalks are on average 10 to 18 millimeters long and 0.8 to 0.9 times as long as their bract and stem. The almost spherical, bald fruit contains up to four seeds about 2.5 × 2.2 millimeters in size.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.

Occurrence

The distribution area of ​​the Hain-Ehrenpreis extends from north and west, across central and south Europe to the northern Balkan peninsula . There are sites in the United Kingdom , Finland , the Netherlands , Belgium , Germany , Austria , Switzerland , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary , Poland , the Baltic States , Belarus , the Ukraine , the former Yugoslavia , in Romania , Spain , France and Italy . In Austria, the Hain honorary award occurs frequently to absent-mindedly in all federal states, in the western Alps it is endangered.

The Grove Speedwell can be found in alluvial forests, in shady, fresh ruderal meadows and hedges, in gardens and fields. He is a species of character of the order Glechometalia.

Systematics

Within the genus of the speedwell ( Veronica ) the grove speedwell belongs to the species group around the ivy speedwell ( Veronica hederifolia ).

The first description of Veronica sublobata was in 1967 by Manfred Adalbert Fischer . Synonyms of Veronica sublobata M.A.Fisch. are: Veronica sibthorpioides Debeaux, Degen & Hervier , Veronica hederifolia subsp. sibthorpioides (Debeaux, Degen & Hervier) Walters , Veronica hederifolia var. lucorum Klett & Richt. , Veronica hederifolia subsp. lucorum (Velcro & Richt.) Hartl .

literature

  • Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Province of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 , p. 732 .
  • SM Walters, DA Webb: Veronica. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 250 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Veronica sublobata on the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved April 13, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karol Marhold, 2011: Scrophulariaceae. : Datasheet Veronica sublobata - In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity . last accessed on March 9, 2016

Web links

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