Scabiosa
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Read about Scabiosa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Scabiosa (Latin, itch, referring to medicinal use). Dipsacaceae. Scabious. Mourning Bride. Annual or perennial herbs, their base more or less woody, comprising some of the showy and commonly cultivated garden flowers. Leaves entire, dentate-lobate or dissected: heads terminal, depressed subglobose or ovoid-conical, pedunculate or rarely sessile in a dichotomous infl.; bracts of the involucre l-2-rowed, herbaceous: fls. blue, rose, yellowish, or white; calyx bristly; corolla-limb 4-5-cleft, subequal or frequently oblique or 2-lipped; stamens 4, very rarely 2: achene adnate to the involucel at the base or up to the middle.—About 70 species, Eu., Asia, and Afr., rare in the tropics. In any moderately good garden soil a succession of flowers is produced from June until frost. The flowers are very serviceable for cutting purposes. Propagated by seed or division. Many of the perennial species act like biennials in cultivation, and often flower the first year from seed. S. atropurpurea is a common garden annual, of easy cultivation from seed. S. alpina, Linn. –Cephalaria alpina, Schrad. — S. elata, Hornem. –Cephalaria tatarica, Schrad. —S. lutea, Hort., is a perennial growing 5-7 ft. high : fls. yellow, not known botanically. G. 25: 442. Var. gigantea, Hort., is also offered in the trade. —S. tatarica, Linn. –Cephalaria tatarica, Schrad. R.B. 33:353. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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