Egg-leaved cloves
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Egg-leaved cowwort ( Kickxia spuria ) |
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The egg-leaved Tännelkraut ( Kickxia spuria ), also known as the egg-leaved snake mouth , the egg-leaved toadflax , the frog or the honorable , is a member of the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). The synonyms Antirrhinum spurium and Linaria spuria exist for the scientific name .
description
The annual herbaceous plant usually reaches heights of 5 to 15 cm or a length of 10 to 30 cm. The stem usually grows upright at first, but is soon branched in a prostrate manner. It is filamentous and more or less long-haired and glandular.
The leaves are ovate-round, have a rounded base and, like the stem, are glandular and long-haired. They are seldom toothed and weakly spear shaped.
The flower stalks are long-haired and shaggy. The flowers sit individually in the leaf axils and have long stalks. The crown has a length of about 10 to 13 mm with a spur and is light yellow in color. The inside of the upper lip is black-violet. The spur is curved and blunt.
The fruit is a pore capsule .
The egg-leaved cantaloupe flowers mainly from July to September.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 18.
Location claims and distribution
The egg-leaved fever grows in cereal and stubble fields as well as on fallow land. It prefers moderately fresh, nutrient and base-rich, lime-poor and -rich, little humus, sandy or pure clay and loam soil. It is a clay pointer and extremely warmth-loving. In Central Europe it is a character species of the Kickxietum spuriae from the association Caucalidion lappulae.
Kickxia spuria occurs from southern Europe to the Caucasus and western Asia. In Central Asia and Central Europe it is naturalized. It is a sub-Mediterranean-subatlantic floral element.
In Austria it is rare in the Pannonian region , otherwise it occurs very rarely. In Switzerland it is generally found scattered.
The egg-leaved cantaloupe occurs in the middle and in the southwest of Germany. In addition, it is usually missing.
Systematics
One can distinguish the following subspecies:
- Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. subsp. spuria
- Kickxia spuria subsp. integrifolia (bread.) R. Fern. : It occurs in the Azores, in southern and southeastern Europe and in Turkey.
literature
- Henning Haeupler , Thomas Muer: picture atlas of the fern and flowering plants of Germany (= the fern and flowering plants of Germany. Volume 2). Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3364-4 .
- Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald, Raimund Fischer: Excursion flora of Austria. Ed .: Manfred A. Fischer . Ulmer, Stuttgart / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8001-3461-6 .
- August Binz , Christian Heitz: School and excursion flora for Switzerland , Schwabe & Co. AG, Basel, 1986, ISBN 3-7965-0832-4
- Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora , Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-8001-3454-3
- Christian August Friedrich Garcke : Illustrierte Flora , 1972, Paul Parey publishing house, ISBN 3-489-68034-0
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg August Pritzel , Carl Jessen : The German folk names of plants. New contribution to the German linguistic treasure. Philipp Cohen, Hannover 1882, page 35, online.
- ↑ Armin Jagel, Volker Unterladstetter: Kickxia elatine and K. spuria - Spit-leaved and egg-leaved Fännelkraut (Plantaginaceae) in North Rhine-Westphalia . Plant portrait of the Bochum Botanical Association ( PDF 9.1 MB)
- ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp. 831 .
- ↑ a b Karol Marhold, 2011: Scrophulariaceae : Datasheet Kickxia spuria In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.
Web links
- Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Egg-leaved cloves . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
- Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- Thomas Meyer: Tännelkraut data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )