Wrinkled perovskie

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Wrinkled perovskie
Systematics
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Mint family (Lamiaceae)
Subfamily : Nepetoideae
Genre : Perovskia ( Perovskia )
Type : Wrinkled perovskie
Scientific name
Perovskia scrophulariifolia
Bunge

The Wrinkled Perowskie ( Perovskia scrophulariifolia ) is a shrub with purple or white flowers from the family of the mint (Lamiaceae). The natural range is in Central Asia. The species is sometimes used as an ornamental shrub. According to R. Govaerts, the species is better placed than Salvia scrophulariifolia (Bunge) BTDrew in the genus Salvia .

description

The wrinkled Perowskie is up to 1 meter high shrub with woody at the base and hairy branches, which are filled with gold glands. Young shoots are greenish white, finely hairy and have a square cross-section. The leaves are almost sessile. The leaf blade is up to 4 centimeters long, oblong-ovate, blunt, unevenly bluntly serrate to notched with a strongly wavy edge. The upper side of the leaf is wrinkled, the nerves on the underside are slightly hairy in young leaves.

The flowers grow in about 30 centimeters long, leafless, conical panicles . The corolla is purple or white.

The wrinkled perovskia blooms from August to September.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 20.

Distribution and location requirements

The natural range is in Central Asia. The Wrinkled Perovskia grows in steppes and dry forests on dry to fresh, slightly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy, sandy-gravelly or sandy-loamy, nutrient-rich soils in sunny and hot locations. The species is sensitive to moisture and frost. It is assigned to winter hardiness zone 6a with mean annual minimum temperatures of −23.3 to −20.6 ° C.

Systematics

The wrinkled Perowskie ( Perovskia scrophulariifolia ) is a kind of the genus of Perovskia ( Perovskia ) in the family of Labiatae (Lamiaceae). There it is assigned to the tribe Mentheae in the subfamily Nepetoideae . The species was first scientifically described by Alexander von Bunge in 1852 . The generic name Perovskia is reminiscent of the Russian general and governor of the Orenburg Province Vasily Alexejewitsch Perowski (1794-1857). The specific epithet scrophulariifolia is derived from Scrophularia , the generic name of the brown wort and from - folius , Latin for "leafy" and thus describes the shape of the leaves, which is similar to that of the brown wort.

use

The wrinkled perovskia is sometimes used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative and fragrant flowers .

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literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 445.
  • Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 629 .
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 445 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 629
  2. ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Perovskia scrophulariifolia. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 445
  4. ^ Perovskia scrophulariifolia at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  5. ↑ Perovskia. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed June 17, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Perovskia scrophulariifolia. In: The Plant List. Retrieved June 17, 2012 .
  7. ^ G. Karelin: Perovskia et Sucthelenia, nova genera plantarum . In: Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 1841: 15-16, 1841
  8. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 572

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