Ostrich saxifrage
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The Saxifraga cotyledon ( Saxifraga cotyledon ) is a species in the genus saxifrage ( Saxifraga ) in the family Saxifragaceae (Saxifragaceae).
features
The ostrich saxifrage is a perennial plant that reaches heights of 20 to 80 centimeters. The stately plant forms rosettes up to 15 centimeters wide. The rosette leaves are 20 to 60 millimeters long, 10 to 15 millimeters wide and widen towards the front. They are prickly or blunt , leathery and have forward-facing saw teeth and fine calcareous scales. The stem is upright to overhanging, densely glandular and forms the panicley, branched, pyramidal inflorescence almost from the base . The petals are white, egg-shaped and 6 to 11 millimeters in size.
Flowering time is from June to August.
The species has chromosome number 2n = 28.
Occurrence
The ostrich saxifrage occurs in the Pyrenees , the Alps and in Northern Europe (Scandinavia and Iceland) in damp rock crevices on silicate from valleys to altitudes of 2600 meters. It occurs in companies of the Androsacion vandellii association.
literature
- Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau : Alpine flowers (Steinbach's natural guide). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1 .
- Jaakko Jalas, Juha Suominen, Raino Lampinen, Arto Kurtto: Atlas florae europaeae . Volume 12 (Resedaceae to Platanaceae). Pages 166–167, Helsinki 1999. ISBN 951-9108-12-2
Individual evidence
- ^ Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 . Page 489.
Web links
- Ostrich saxifrage. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Distribution map for Germany. In: Floraweb .
- Saxifraga cotyledon L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- Distribution in the northern hemisphere according to: Eric Hultén , Magnus Fries: Atlas of North European vascular plants 1986, ISBN 3-87429-263-0
