Mountain Valerian
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The mountain valerian ( Valeriana montana ) is a plant species from the subfamily of the valerian family (Valerianoideae), which occurs in the limestone mountains of Europe .
description
It is a perennial herbaceous plant ( hemicryptophyte ). From a weakly woody, up to 15 cm long base axis, next to sterile leaf rosettes, mostly clearly polygonal stems with growth heights between 30 cm and 60 cm rise.
The opposite leaves are undivided and ovate to lanceolate, more rarely the upper leaves are trilobed. At least the lower leaves have entire margins. Between the basal leaves and the inflorescence there are three to eight pairs of stem leaves. In contrast, the similar rock valerian ( Valeriana saxatilis ), which is usually much smaller, has at most one or two pairs.
At the ends of the stalk there are richly flowered , gold -like inflorescences . The flowers are usually distinctly pink to reddish and only rarely white.
The chromosome number of the species is 2n = 32.
Occurrence
The species is found in the high mountains of southern and central Europe . The northern limit of their distribution area is reached on the northern edge of the Alps. It occurs in Portugal, Spain, Andorra, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, Austria, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey.
This species grows in subalpine to alpine limestone debris flats . It occurs exclusively on calcareous soils. It is an association character of the Petasition paradoxi and occurs mainly in the Petasitetum paradoxi. It is also found less often in societies of the associations Epilobion fleischeri or Seslerion albicantis.
In the Allgäu Alps, it rises on the southwest slope of the Linkerskopf in Bavaria up to 2200 m above sea level.
Taxonomy
Valeriana montana L. also has the synonym: Valeriana montana subsp. hirsuticaulis E. Walth.
Sources and further information
literature
- Henning Haeupler , Thomas Muer: picture atlas of the fern and flowering plants of Germany (= the fern and flowering plants of Germany. Volume 2). Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3364-4 .
- Werner Rothmaler : Excursion flora for the areas of the GDR and the FRG . Volume 2: Vascular Plants, 14th Edition. People and knowledge, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-060-12539-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Stuttgart, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001. Page 882. ISBN 3-8001-3131-5
- ^ A b E. von Raab-Straube & T. Henning (2017+): Valerianaceae. - In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Data sheet Valerianaceae
- ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 535.
Web links
- Mountain Valerian. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Mountain Valerian . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
- Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
- Valeriana montana L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- Thomas Meyer: Valerian data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )