Read about Patrinia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Patrinia (E. L. Patrin, 1742-1814, French traveler in Siberia). Valerianaceae. Yellow- or white-flowered valerian-like hardy herbaceous perennials, a foot or so high, blooming in early summer; resemble Valeriana and Fedia. Glabrous or loosely villous herbs: lvs. once or twice pinnatifid or pinnatisect, the radical ones rarely entire: cymes coryrnbose-panicled bracts narrow, free, but sometimes anpendaged with a large 2-nerved and netted-veined bracteole which is appressed to the fr.: calyx with a small erect or spreading somewhat dentate limb; corolla-tube very short; lobes 5, spreading; stamens usually 4; style nearly entire at apex: sterile locules of the fr. nearly as large or larger than the fertile ones.—About 15 species in extratropical Asia; little planted. They are of easy cult, in damp or shady places; bloom May to July- They are grown either in borders or in rockwork. Prop, by division of the roots and also by seeds. P. intermedia, Roem. & Schult. (P. rupestris, Bunge. Fedia rupestris, Hort.). 1-1 1/2 ft.: lvs. pinnatifid, the segms. lanceolate with large terminal lobe: fls. yellow, fragrant, in May and June. Siberia. B.M. 714 (as V. sibirica).—P. sibirica, Juss. (Valeriana sibirica, Linn.). 1 ft., most of the lvs. radical, the cauline ones pinnate with entire segms., the radical long-spatulate, serrate, strong- toothed or entire (even on same plant): fls. yellow, fragrant. Siberia. B.M. 2325 (as V. ruthenica).
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