Mock cornflower
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Mock cornflower ( Volutaria muricata ) |
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The false cornflower ( Volutaria muricata ), occasionally also called the wise men’s star , is a species of plant from the genus Volutaria in the sunflower family (Asteraceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The mock cornflower grows as a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 40 to 60 centimeters. The stems are branched and spread-ascending. The leaves are narrowly lanceolate, the lower leaves are undivided, the central ones pinnate and coarsely hairy, the upper ones smaller and with entire margins.
Generative characteristics
The 5 to 15 cm inflorescence stalk is leafless in the upper area and hairy like a cobweb at the end. The cup-shaped inflorescence has a diameter of 5 to 7 centimeters. The egg-shaped flower head cover measures 7 to 20 × 10 to 15 millimeters and is egg-shaped. The standing in five to seven rows bracts are blackish on the fine serrated edge and at the top, the outer long have a 1 to 3 mm, projecting mandrel. The base of the flower head is covered with long hair. The flower heads only contain tubular flowers . The marginal, sterile tubular flowers have dark purple to purple, 23 to 25 millimeters long, fused petals that end in 10 to 15 millimeters long, widely spread corolla lobes. The inner, fertile tubular flowers have fused petals 13 to 14 millimeters long that end in corolla lobes 5 to 6 millimeters long.
The flowering period extends from July to August.
The light gray-brown, barrel-shaped achenes have a crown-shaped pappus made up of several rows of non-grown, 1 to 2.5 mm long, unevenly toothed scales, the outer ones being shorter and narrower than the inner ones.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 34.
Occurrence
The false cornflower is originally found in southern Spain and northwest Africa ( Algeria and Morocco ), perhaps also in Libya . It thrives on the edges of fields.
use
The false cornflower is rarely used as an ornamental plant in summer flower beds and as a cut flower . It is cultivated as an annual.
Taxonomy
It was first published under the name Centaurea muricata L. 1753 by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum , 2, p. 918. The new combination to the current name was made in 1934 by René Maire in Émile Jahandiez and René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire in Catalog des plantes du Maroc , p. 817. Further synonyms for Volutaria muricata (L.) Maire are: Amberboa muricata (L.) DC. , Volutarella muricata (L.) Benth. & Hook. f. , Cyanopsis muricata (L.) Dostál .
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 .
- David J. Keil: Volutaria : Volutaria muricata , p. 174 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1 (Mutisieae – Anthemideae) , Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2006, ISBN 0-19-530563-9 .
- Werner Greuter : Volutaria muricata at Euro + Med PlantBase - the database for vascular plants in Europe and the Mediterranean.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volutaria muricata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ a b Volutaria muricata at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed June 21, 2016.
