Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] |
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Pappus: (purplish-brown, short 4mm, simple, achenes oblong) |
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12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Usually a garden plant which can also be found on the River Tyne and only in two or three other hectads. |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
A perennial which grows up to 1.2m high with a long spike of yellow flowers. It flowers from the bottom first working its way upwards. Flower buds at top yet to open. |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Is apt to lose several of its only five petals. |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Petals yellow, curved and very narrowe for their width (it is slightly wider in the middle). |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Un-opened flower buds. Green sepal tube long and cylindrical becomes darker as it nears the short sepal teeth. Stem dark purple and slightly ribbed. |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Disc florets protruding. Stigmas very long, yellow and with a double-hook on the end. |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Disc florets protrude. |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves darkish-green, palmately lobed with jagged side-lobes. |
12th July 2013, a garden, Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Veins prominent but few. |
Easily confused with : Leopardplant (Ligularia dentata) [a plant in the same Genus bot having Ace-of-Spades shaped leaves which are deeply and irregularly toothed]. Not to be semantically confused with : Leopard's-Bane (Doronicum pardalianches) [and other Leopard's-bane plants belonging to the same Daisy Family all with larger flowers and many more petals].
The petals have some similarities to those of :
Very slight resemblance to : Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : You are much more likely to find this growing in a garden than growing wild, for it is only found in 3 or 4 hectads in the UK. There has been a population on the banks of the River Tyne in Northumberland for several decades. Its strange name derives from the Russian explorer Nikolai Przewlaskii who presumably found it growing in its native China.
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Ligularia | przewalskii | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Asteraceae |
Ligularia (Leopardplants) |
Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] |