Zauschneria

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Zauschneria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.