Difference between revisions of "Zauschneria"
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+ | Zauschneria (named for a professor of natural history at Prague). Onagraceae. Low perennials, some of them subshrubby, few of them used in the flower-garden. | ||
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+ | Leaves, the lowest opposite, others alternate: fls. racemose, large, scarlet, fuchsia-like; calyx-tube globose, inflated just above the ovary, then becoming funnel-form, 4-lobed, bearing 8 small scales within; petals 4, obcordate, or deeply cleft; stamens 8: caps. slender-fusiform, obtusely 4-angled, 4-valved, many-seeded.— About 7 species, W. N. Amer. | ||
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;Species:'''''Epilobium canum''''' (Greene) P.H.Raven | ;Species:'''''Epilobium canum''''' (Greene) P.H.Raven |
Revision as of 10:43, 3 December 2009
Read about Zauschneria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Zauschneria (named for a professor of natural history at Prague). Onagraceae. Low perennials, some of them subshrubby, few of them used in the flower-garden. Leaves, the lowest opposite, others alternate: fls. racemose, large, scarlet, fuchsia-like; calyx-tube globose, inflated just above the ovary, then becoming funnel-form, 4-lobed, bearing 8 small scales within; petals 4, obcordate, or deeply cleft; stamens 8: caps. slender-fusiform, obtusely 4-angled, 4-valved, many-seeded.— About 7 species, W. N. Amer.
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- Familia
- Onagraceae
- Species
- Epilobium canum (Greene) P.H.Raven
Note: the variety angustifolium is no longer recognised as distinct from the type E. canum.