Paederota
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Read about Paederota in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Paederota (from paederos, a. name applied by the ancients to a species of Acanthus). Scrophulariaceae. Hardy perennial herbs suitable for garden use: low, many -stemmed, puberulent or pilose, with opposite serrate or cut lvs. and dense terminal spikes: fls. short- pedicelled, solitary in the axils of small bracts; calyx 5-parted, the sepms. narrow; corolla with a cylindrical tube and a sub-2-lobed limb, the lobes erect or erect-spreading; stamens 2, affixed to the tube: caps, acute, turgid. About 5 species, Eu. and the Orient in the mountains. By some considered a section of Veronica. The following species, which though perennial are usually treated as annuals, require a dry situation and light sandy soil. Prop, by seed. P. Ageria, Linn. Plant puberulous, 6-12 in. high: lvs. all acute, the lower ovate, middle ones 1 1/2 in. long, almost 1 in. broad, the upper longer and narrower-lanceolate, cut-serrate: fls. yellow, in short compact spikes; corolla nearly 1/2 in. long with erect segms. May. Eu. P. Bonarota, Linn. Plant pilose, 4-6 in. high: lower lvs. orbiculate; upper lvs. ovate or lanceolate, serrate or cut: fls. blue, in compact globose or oblong spikes which are 1-1 1/2 in. long; corolla 1/3in. long with somewhat spreading segms. May. Eu. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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