High skullcap

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High skullcap
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Skullcap ( Scutellaria altissima )

Systematics
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Mint family (Lamiaceae)
Subfamily : Scutellarioideae
Genre : Skullcap ( Scutellaria )
Type : High skullcap
Scientific name
Scutellaria altissima
L.

The High skullcap ( Scutellaria altissima ) is a plant type from the family of the mint (Lamiaceae).

description

The skullcap is a perennial plant that forms a rhizome as a perennial organ. The stem axis reaches heights of growth of up to 100 cm, it can be unbranched or branched. The leaves are 5 to 15 cm long and 2 to 5 cm wide. The leaf blade is ovate, the leaf margin is serrate. On the underside, hairiness can be formed along the leaf veins.

The internodes in the inflorescence are 10 to 12 mm long. The bracts are 6 to 10 mm long and thus shorter than the flowers . They are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, entire, pointed and green in color. The calyx may be studded with a few long, white glandless trichomes . The crown is 12 to 16 (rarely up to 18) mm long, bluish in color, only the lower lip is whitish in color. The corolla tube is almost hairless or hairy on the outside.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 34.

Occurrence

The species occurs in eastern Central Europe, in southern Eastern Europe and in central and southern Italy and up to the Caucasus region. It grows in forests.

Locations and distribution in Central Europe

The skullcap needs nutrient-rich, loose loamy soil with plenty of gauze. It occurs in Central Europe in heat-loving Carpinion or Cephalanthero-Fagenion societies. In Southeastern Europe it particularly thrives in societies of the order Quercetalia pubescentis.

It inhabits light, warm deciduous forests; in Central and Southeastern Europe the species is occasionally planted in gardens, and from this it is locally, mostly inconsistent, overgrown; in Lower Austria it is also constantly overgrown.

literature

  • TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (Eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 136 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Dietmar Aichele, Heinz-Werner Schwegler: The flowering plants of Central Europe , Franckh-Kosmos-Verlag, 2nd revised edition 1994, 2000, Volume 4, ISBN 3 440-08048-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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.  797 .
  2. ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Scutellaria altissima. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 21, 2018.

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