Alpine skullcap
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The Alpine skullcap ( Scutellaria alpina ) is a plant species in the family of the mint (Lamiaceae).
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Vegetative characteristics
The alpine skullcap is a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 10 to 40 centimeters. The prostrate, ascending, branched stem is hairy and woody at its base.
The opposite leaves are short stalked. The simple leaf blade is egg-shaped with a length of 2 to 3 centimeters with a rounded to heart-shaped blade base and blunt-toothed leaf margin.
Generative characteristics
The short-stalked flowers are in a terminal, dense, four-sided, spiked inflorescence . The roof-tile-like bracts are reddish or often purple, egg-shaped, relatively large, with entire margins and longer than the calyx.
The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The two-lipped calyx has a 2 to 5 millimeter long scale on the top. The blue-violet crown has a partially white lower lip and is 2.5 to 3 inches long. The upwardly curved corolla tube is hairy glandular.
The stalked partial fruits are densely hairy gray tomentose.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24.
Occurrence
The range of the Alpine skullcap includes the Maritime Alps to the Venetian Alps as well as the Pyrenees , the Apennines and the Balkans .
Common locations of the alpine skullcap are rock debris and uneven grass over limestone . The species finds its optimum in societies of the association Seslerion variae.
literature
- Oskar Angerer, Thomas Muer: Alpine plants. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-3374-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Scutellaria alpina L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved September 4, 2017.
- ↑ a b Konrad Lauber, Gerhart Wagner: Flora Helvetica. Flora of Switzerland. Verlag Paul Haupt, Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna, 1996, ISBN 3-258-05405-3 , p. 848.
- ↑ David Aeschimann, Konrad Lauber, Daniel Martin Moser, Jean-Paul Theurillat: Flora alpina . Volume 2, page 106. Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna Haupt-Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-258-06600-0
Web links
- Scutellaria alpina in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
- Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Datasheet - Scutellaria alpina at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families by The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew . - Last accessed on September 4, 2017.