Hedysarum coronarium
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Italian sweet clover ( Hedysarum coronarium ) |
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Hedysarum coronarium , also known as Spanish Esparsette , French Sweet Clover , Italian Sweet Clover , Cock's Head or Crown Sweet Clover , is a species of sweet clover ( Hedysarum ) and belongs to the legume family (Fabaceae). It was first published in 1753 by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum 2, p. 750.
description
In Hedysarum coronarium is a perennial herbaceous plant with growth heights between 30 and 150 cm. It forms a taproot and is drought-resistant .
The up to 15 cm long leaves are pinnate unpaired with 5–11 pinnate leaves. The elliptical, oval or obovate shaped leaflets are 1.5-4 cm long and 0.8-2 cm wide, the terminal leaflet slightly larger than the lateral leaflets. The shiny upper side of the leaflets is smooth, the underside and edge of the leaf are closely covered with hair.
The inflorescences have a 5-15 cm long stem and consist of up to 40 wine-red to purple flowers . An albino form with white petals is very rarely found .
Brown joint sleeves with 1–4 segments that are clearly separated from one another by constriction are formed. In each of the segments there is a single, roundish, laterally flattened dark seed .
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.
Occurrence
Crown sweet clover is native to the Maghreb and Spain; it is grown today in southern Europe, Australia, India, Brazil and New Zealand .
use
The Spanish Esparsette is now mainly grown as a forage crop. Sometimes it is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens. In Italy the plant is used as a bee pasture . In New Zealand, the plant is used to protect against erosion and to plant roadsides.
In earlier times it was supposedly also used as a vegetable (source of protein), e.g. B. in Tuscany.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scanned at Botanicus.
- ↑ Ecocrop: Hedysarum coronarium at ecocrop.fao.org (English, accessed on June 14, 2010)
- ↑ Bernd Kendzior: The wildly growing Fabaceae of the Maltese islands. ( PDF, online)
- ↑ Hedysarum coronarium at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN): Hedysarum coronarium L. (English, accessed on July 25, 2010)
- ^ A b c G. Moore, P. Sanford, T. Wiley, 2006: Perennial pastures for Western Australia. Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia. Bulletin 4690, Perth. ( PDF, online) ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ R. Hegnauer: Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Volume 11b-1: Leguminosae, Part 2. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3764351656 , p. 7.
- ↑ Noah's Ark Variety Handbook 2009/10 , Noah's Ark, Schiltern, Lower Austria, p. 191.
