Eucnide

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Eucnide in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Eucnide (Greek-made word, referring to the sharp nettle-like hairs). Loasaceae-. Several N. American annual or biennial herbs, by some authors referred to Mentzelia. Plants with stinging hairs: Lvs. alternate or the lower ones opposite, cordate or ovate, more or less lobed: fls. yellow or white; calyx-tube oblong, the limb persistent, 5-lobed; petals 5, united at the base and inserted on the throat of the calyx; stamens numerous, the filaments filiform; ovary 1-loculed, bearing a 5- cleft style. E. bartonioides, Zucc. (Mentzelia bartonioides, Benth. and Hook.), is sometimes cult. It is a pretty summer-flowering annual, thriving in warm garden soil. Sts. about 1 ft., somewhat succulent, more or less decumbent, hispid-hairy: Lvs. alternate, petioled, broad-ovate and toothed-lobed: fls. large, on long pedicels, opening in sunshine, the petals ovate-pointed, the numerous yellow hair-like stamens projecting and brush-like. Mex., New Mex., and Texas. B.M. 4491 (as Microsperma bartonioides). Gt. 5:32D. L. H. B. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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