Derivation of specific name
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echioides: resembling the genus Echium
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- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Picris echioides L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=162060
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
Description
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
Annual or biennial herb, up to 1 m tall. Stems stout, bearing rigid hairs which are tuberculate at the base and 3-fid and hooked at the apex. Basal leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, decurrent into a winged petiole; cauline leaves sessile, amplexicaul. Capitula borne in an irregular corymb.
Outer phyllaries 3-5, large, ovate-cordate; inner lanceolate. Flowers yellow. Achenes 2.5-3.5 mm; beak slender, as long as the achene.
- licence
- cc-by-nc
- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Picris echioides L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=162060
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
Native to the Mediterranean region, the Canary Isles and SW Asia; widely naturalised in Europe, N America and other parts of the world.
- licence
- cc-by-nc
- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Picris echioides L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=162060
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
