Serratula

Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

Read about Serratula in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Serratula (from serra, alluding to the roughly toothed leaf-margins). Compositae. A horticulturally unimportant group of composites consisting of about 30 species of herbaceous thistle-like perennials grown for their purple or violet fls.: sts. simple or branched: lvs. alternate, dentate, or much cut into sharp but usually unarmed segms., green both sides or sometimes pale and canescent beneath: infl. of a single pedunculate head or, as in the following, of a lax corymb; heads equal-fld., the involucral bracts in many series, narrowly acuminate at the apex, but not as in many thistles, spiny; fls. purple, but not very showy. Cult. in open border, but perhaps not in Amer. outside botanic garden collections. Eu., N. Afr., to China and Japan. S. atriplicifolia, Benth. & Hook. Of vigorous growth: lvs. large, heart-shaped: heads globular, attaining height of 5 ft.: fls. purple. Cent. China. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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