Leuzea

Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

Read about Leuzea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Leuzea (De Leuze, friend of DeCandolle, who founded the genus). Compositae. A few perennial or biennial herbs with simple 1-headed sts., one of which is sometimes planted in herbaceous borders or rock-gardens. By some the genus is referred to Centaurea, becoming a section of that genus distinguished by the feather-like pappus in several rows and which is connate at base and falls as a ring. Plants unarmed: leaves radical, or alternate if cauline, dentate or pinnatifid, white-tomentose beneath: flowers purple, in large and showy heads, the corolla regular or slightly oblique, the tube long and slender; style-branches very short; involucre ovoid or subglobose, the bracts in many series: heads homogamous.—-Species probably 5 or 6, widely distributed; Eu., N. Afruits, Austral. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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