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Aster Sedifolius
''Galatella sedifolia'', often known by the synonym ''Aster sedifolius'', is herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the genus ''Galatella ''Galatella'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 mil ...'' of the family Asteraceae. Description The flowers are lavender-blue or pinkish-lilac, with five to ten petals and a quite protruding yellow centre. Leaves are small, elongated and untoothed. This plant grows to a height of about at an altitude of above sea level. The period of flowering is from July until late autumn. References Flora Europaea External links BiolibAster {{Taxonbar, from=Q4810645 Astereae Flora of Italy Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
