Texas Lindheimerie
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Texas Lindheimerie ( Lindheimera texana ) |
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| A. Gray & Engelm. |
The Texas Lindheimerie ( Lindheimera texana ), and Texas Star called, makes together with the plant Lindheimera mexicana the genus Lindheimera in the family of the daisy family (Asteraceae) from. The generic name Lindheimera honors the German-American botanist Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer (1801–1879).
features
The Texas Lindheimerie is an annual plant that reaches heights of 30 to 60 centimeters. The leaves are all opposite or the middle ones are alternate. They are elongated-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate , the lower leaves narrow at the base like a stalk, the upper ones surround half-stems, are whole or roughly toothed and rough.
The flower heads are approximately 3 centimeters in diameter. Of the standing in two rows husks are the five outer linear-lanceolate and rauhaarig, the inner contrast, ovate, acute and bare. There are five ray flowers . The ray-flowers are orange-yellow in color and broadly ovate. The fruits are flattened, winged, short-haired and have two short, horn-like appendages.
The flowering period extends from July to September, in some cases it begins as early as June.
Occurrence
The Texas Lindheimerie occurs in Texas , Oklahoma and northeast Mexico in prairies on basic soils. Its sister species, Lindheimera mexicana , described by Asa Gray , only grows in Mexico.
use
The Texas Lindheimerie is rarely used as an ornamental plant for summer flower beds and borders.
literature
- Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Rothmaler excursion flora from Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 .
- BL Turner and MC Johnston: Chromosome Numbers and Geographic Distribution of Lindheimera, Engelmannia, and Berlandiera (Compositae-Heliantheae-Melampodinae) . - The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1956), pp. 125-132.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
- ^ Isotype from Lindheimera mexicana
