Floury mullein

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Floury mullein
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Mealy mullein ( Verbascum lychnitis )

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Figwort family (Scrophulariaceae)
Genre : Mullein ( Verbascum )
Type : Floury mullein
Scientific name
Verbascum lychnitis
L.

The Mealy mullein ( Verbascum lychnitis ) or heath mullein or Heide Torch mullein is a plant of the genus mullein ( Verbascum ).

description

The mealy mullein is a biennial , herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 60 to 120, sometimes even 150 centimeters. The stem is ribbed and angular at the top, finely pressed and without glands. The leaves are elongated, obovate and hairy on the underside with more gray-dusty tomentose hairs, while the upper side is almost bare. The hair is floury, flaky, but hardly wipeable. The edges of the leaves are slightly notched to entire and the leaf margins are not sloping.

The flowering period extends from June to August. The corollas have a diameter of mostly 12 to 18 (10 to 20) millimeters and are arranged in clusters, slightly dorsiventral and light yellow or white in color. The stamens are shaggy white.

The number of chromosomes is n = 16.

Mealy mullein ( Verbascum lychnitis ) with yellow flowers

Occurrence

The floury mullein occurs in Europe and Western Asia up to an altitude of 1400 m. Their distribution area also includes Western Siberia and Morocco and extends northward in Europe to Denmark and Great Britain.

Basenholde floury mullein can be found in dry bushes and dry forest edges, on dry and semi-dry lawns and on moderately dry ruderal areas. In Central Europe it is a character species of the class Trifolio-Geranietea sanguinei, but also occurs in societies of the order Onopordetalia or the associations Atropion or Mesobromion. In the Allgäu Alps, it rises in the Tyrolean part of the Egg on the ascent from Elbigenalp to Bernhardseck up to an altitude of 1420 meters.

Systematics

One can distinguish the following subspecies:

  • Verbascum lychnitis L. subsp. lychnitis
  • Verbascum lychnitis subsp. moenchii (Schultz) Holub & Mladý : It occurs in the Czech Republic.

literature

  • Eckehart J. Jäger, Klaus Werner (Ed.): Excursion flora from Germany . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. 10th edited edition. tape 4 : Vascular Plants: Critical Volume . Elsevier, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich / Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1496-2 .
  • Schmeil-Fitschen: Flora of Germany and its adjacent areas , Heidelberg 1973, ISBN 3-494-00327-0

Individual evidence

  1. Mealy mullein. In: FloraWeb.de.
  2. ^ Verbascum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  3. ^ 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.  827 .
  4. Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 430.
  5. a b Karol Marhold: Scrophulariaceae , 2011: Datasheet Verbascum lychnitis In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

Web links

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