Dipsacus pilosus

Hairy teasel ( Dipsacus pilosus )

The Hairy teasel ( Dipsacus pilosus, Syn: Virga pilosa (L.) Hill ) is a species of the genus of the card ( Dipsacus ) in the subfamily of the teasel family ( Dipsacoideae ).

Features

The Hairy Teasel is a biennial plant, which reaches stature heights of 60 to 120 centimeters. It is erect and branching. Both stems and leaves are more or less bristle- hairy and prickly. The leaves are fused at the base. The lowest are long-stalked, ovate, entire, usually and sometimes have two smaller lateral leaflets. The upper leaves are ovate - elliptic, short stalks, and often in three parts.

The white or yellowish - white colored flowers are arranged in a dense, spherical, capitate inflorescence, which has a diameter of 2 to 2.5 inches and is nodding before flowering. The bracts are bristly ciliate and acuminate. The bracts are a little longer than the flowers.

The flowering period extends from July to August.

Ecology

The Hairy card is a Hemikryptophyt. The vormännlichen flowers open in concentric zones in succession; they are from insects ( preferred by bumble bees ) pollinating.

Occurrence

The Hairy card comes in central Europe and the northern Southern Europe in light forests, lowland forests, river banks, moist woods and roadsides, fences and hedges. In Germany this type is scattered to rare, in the north it is missing.

After Ellenberg she is a half-light plant, intermediate continental spread, growing on nitrogen-rich sites and a Verbandscharakterart the leek herb fringes ( Alli Arion ).

Use

The Hairy card is also cultivated as an ornamental plant.