Spanish rabbit bell

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Spanish rabbit bell
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Spanish rabbit bell ( Hyacinthoides hispanica )

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Scilloideae
Genre : Hare bells ( Hyacinthoides )
Type : Spanish rabbit bell
Scientific name
Hyacinthoides hispanica
( Mill. ) Rothm.

The Spanish hare bells ( Hyacinthoides hispanica (Mill.) Rothm. ) Is a species of the hare bells ( Hyacinthoides ) in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).

features

The Spanish hare bell is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 15 to 50 centimeters. This geophyte forms onions as persistent organs.

The racemose inflorescence is on all sides. The flowers are odorless. Upper flowers are more or less erect, lower stalked to over 2 centimeters long and protruding. The perigone is widely bell-shaped and blue, white or pink. The outer stamens are attached to the lower third of the perigone and are as long as the inner ones . The dust bags are blue.

The flowering time is in May, sometimes it begins as early as April.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.

Occurrence

The natural distribution area of ​​the Spanish hare bell is northwest Africa, western Spain and Portugal. Here the species can be found in forests and bushes. In southern, western and central Europe as well as in North America it occurs naturalized.

use

This species is used as an ornamental plant and as a cut flower in groups of trees . She has been in culture since 1601.

Systematics

The English botanist Philip Miller described the species in 1768 under the taxon Scilla hispanica . The German botanist Werner Rothmaler moved them in 1944 under the taxon Hyacinthoides hispanica , which is valid today, together with other species from the genus of the bluestars ( Scilla ) in a new genus of the rabbit bells ( Hyacinthoides ). Further synonyms for the species are Endymion campanulatus (Aiton) Willk. and Scilla campanulata Aiton .

Others

The Spanish rabbit bell forms with the Atlantic rabbit bell a richly shaped and difficult to distinguish bastard Hyacinthoides hispanica × Hyacinthoides non-scripta = Hyacinthoides × massartiana Geerinck (Syn. Hyacinthoides × variabilis P.D.Sell ). Cultivated and overgrown plants mostly go back to this bastard.

swell

  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tropicos. [1]
  2. ↑ Gard. dict. ed. 8: Scilla no.8. 1768.
  3. ↑ Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 53:14. 1944. See entry at GRIN .

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