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Catananche Caespitosa
''Catananche'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to dry meadows in the Mediterranean region. They are cultivated for their cornflower-like blooms appearing in summer, in shades of blue, yellow and white. They are suitable for a sunny border, and for dried flower arrangements. ; Species * ''Catananche arenaria'' Coss. & Durieu - Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania * ''Catananche caerulea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * '' Catananche caespitosa'' Desf. - Algeria, Morocco * ''Catananche lutea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * '' Catananche montana'' Coss. & Durieu - Algeria, Morocco Phylogeny According to recent genetic analyses, the genus ''Catananche'' is related to the genera ''Hymenonema'', ''Scolymus'' and ''Gundelia ''Gundelia'' is a low to high (20–100 cm) this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catananche Caerulea
''Catananche caerulea'', or Cupid's dart, is a greyish green perennial herbaceous plant with a basal leaf rosette and conspicuous blue-purple or sometimes white flowerheads, belonging to the daisy family. It is a popular garden plant and is often used in dried flower arrangements. and cited on It is native to the Mediterranean region. The flower was supposedly used by the ancient Greeks as a key ingredient in a love potion, hence the common name "Cupid's dart". Description Cupid's dart is a short-lived perennial herbaceous plant, of 20–90 cm high. It has eighteen chromosomes (2n=18). Leaves and stems There is a basal rosette of many linear leaves of 2–20 cm long and ¼–¾ cm wide, which may be entire or are pinnately incised, creating linear lobes mostly directed towards the tip. The leaves are covered in long soft woolly hairs (pilose) lying on the surface, giving both leaf surfaces a greyish green color. The leaf tips may be blunt or pointy, and ... [...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] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae were first described in the year 1740. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger family is unclear as the quantity of extant species in each family is unknown. Most species of Asteraceae are annual, biennial, or perennial herbaceous plants, but there are also shrubs, vines, and trees. The family has a widespread distribution, from subpolar to tropical regions in a wide variety of habitats. Most occur in hot desert and cold or hot semi-desert climates, and they are found on every continent but Antarctica. The primary common characteristic is the existence of sometimes hundreds of tiny individual florets which are held together by protective involucres in flower heads, or more technicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Plant
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history. The term is equivalent to the concept of indigenous or autochthonous species. Every wild organism (as opposed to a domesticated organism) is known as an introduced species within the regions where it was anthropogenically introduced. If an introduced species causes substantial ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage, it may be regarded more specifically as an invasive species. The notion of nativity is often a blurred concept, as it is a function of both time and political boundaries. Over long periods of time, local conditions and migratory patterns are constantly changing as tectonic plates move, join, and split. Natural climate change (which is much slower than human-caused climate change) changes sea level, ice cover, temperature, and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catananche Arenaria
''Catananche'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to dry meadows in the Mediterranean region. They are cultivated for their cornflower-like blooms appearing in summer, in shades of blue, yellow and white. They are suitable for a sunny border, and for dried flower arrangements. ; Species * '' Catananche arenaria'' Coss. & Durieu - Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania * ''Catananche caerulea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * '' Catananche caespitosa'' Desf. - Algeria, Morocco * ''Catananche lutea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * '' Catananche montana'' Coss. & Durieu - Algeria, Morocco Phylogeny According to recent genetic analyses, the genus ''Catananche'' is related to the genera ''Hymenonema'', ''Scolymus'' and ''Gundelia ''Gundelia'' is a low to high (20–100 cm) thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catananche Caespitosa
''Catananche'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to dry meadows in the Mediterranean region. They are cultivated for their cornflower-like blooms appearing in summer, in shades of blue, yellow and white. They are suitable for a sunny border, and for dried flower arrangements. ; Species * ''Catananche arenaria'' Coss. & Durieu - Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania * ''Catananche caerulea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * '' Catananche caespitosa'' Desf. - Algeria, Morocco * ''Catananche lutea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * '' Catananche montana'' Coss. & Durieu - Algeria, Morocco Phylogeny According to recent genetic analyses, the genus ''Catananche'' is related to the genera ''Hymenonema'', ''Scolymus'' and ''Gundelia ''Gundelia'' is a low to high (20–100 cm) this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catananche Lutea
''Catananche lutea'', is a woolly annual plant, in the family Asteraceae, with most leaves in a basal rosette, and some smaller leaves on the stems at the base of the branches. Seated horizontal flowerheads develop early on under the rosette leaves. Later, not or sparingly branching erect stems grow to 8–40 cm high, carrying solitary flowerheads at their tips with a papery involucre whitish to beige, reaching beyond the yellow ligulate florets. Flowers are present between April and June. This plant is unique for the five different types of seed it develops, few larger seeds from the basal flowerheads, which remain in the soil, and smaller seeds from the flowerheads above ground that may be spread by the wind or remain in the flowerhead when it breaks from the dead plant. This phenomenon is known as amphicarpy. The seeds germinate immediately, but in one type, germination is postponed. It naturally occurs around the Mediterranean. Sources in English sometimes refer to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catananche Montana
''Catananche'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to dry meadows in the Mediterranean region. They are cultivated for their cornflower-like blooms appearing in summer, in shades of blue, yellow and white. They are suitable for a sunny border, and for dried flower arrangements. ; Species * ''Catananche arenaria'' Coss. & Durieu - Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania * ''Catananche caerulea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * ''Catananche caespitosa'' Desf. - Algeria, Morocco * ''Catananche lutea'' L. - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco * '' Catananche montana'' Coss. & Durieu - Algeria, Morocco Phylogeny According to recent genetic analyses, the genus ''Catananche'' is related to the genera ''Hymenonema'', ''Scolymus'' and ''Gundelia ''Gundelia'' is a low to high (20–100 cm) thist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hymenonema
''Hymenonema'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae endemic to Greece. On each of the single or few stems, the species have one to three flowerheads consisting of yellow or yolk yellow ligulate florets, scaly pappus, greyish, pinnately segmented leaves in a basal rosette, and few smaller leaves on the 20–70 cm high stems. It contains two species: '' Hymenonema graecum'', that is known from the Cyclades, and '' Hymenonema laconicum'', which occurs in the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos. Description Both ''Hymenonema'' species are herbaceous perennial plants, with short glandular hairs, and a basal rosettes of pinnately segmented leaves that appears greyish due to longer hairs without glands that are pressed to the leaf surfaces. Plants may have one or few solid stems with zero to two branches, carrying few smaller leaves, the lowest pinnately segmented, and the higher increasingly simple, small and narrow. Each branch carries one flowerhead at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scolymus
''Scolymus'' is a genus of annual, biennial or perennial, herbaceous plants that is assigned to the family Asteraceae, and can be found in Macaronesia, around the Mediterranean, and in the Middle East. All species are spiny, thistle-like in appearance, with flowerheads that consist of yellow (rarely orange or white) ligulate florets, and canals that contain latex. It is known as سكوليمس (skwlyms) in Arab, scolyme in French, and is sometimes called golden thistle or oyster thistle in English. Description The species of ''Scolymus'' are spiny herbaceous annuals, biennials or perennials of up to 1¾ m high, that contain a milky latex. These have twenty chromosomes (2n=20). Root, stem and leaves Biannual and perennial plants produce a stout taproot of up to 8 cm in diameter and 60 cm long. Young plants consist of a rosette of leaves, which may be variegated, once-pinnately spiny-lobed, to 30 cm long, and having short, fleshy stalks. The stems can be si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gundelia
''Gundelia'' is a low to high (20–100 cm) thistle-like perennial herbaceous plant with latex, spiny compound inflorescences, reminiscent of teasles and eryngos, that contain cream, yellow, greenish, pink, purple or redish-purple disk florets. It is assigned to the family Asteraceae. Flowers can be found from February to May. The stems of this plant dry-out when the seeds are ripe and break free from the underground root, and are then blown away like a tumbleweed, thus spreading the seeds effectively over large areas with little standing vegetation. This plant is native to the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle-East. Opinions differ about the number of species in ''Gundelia''. Sometimes the genus is regarded monotypic, ''Gundelia tournefortii'' being a species with a large variability, but other authors distinguish up to nine species, differing in floret color and pubescence. Young stems are cooked and eaten in the Middle-East and are said to taste like a combination of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
