Gagea liotardii

Yellow Star -tube ( Gagea fragifera )

The tubed yellow star ( Gagea fragifera ) is a plant that belongs to the genus yellow stars ( Gagea ) in the lily family ( Liliaceae ).

Features

The tubed yellow star is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height 10-15 centimeters. This Geophyt forms two enclosed by a common skin from onions as outlasting. The stems are single, erect, glabrous, unbranched and leafy. The leaves are usually two basic shaggy hairy, 2-3 mm wide, linear, Roehrig and in cross-section almost round. The two stem leaves are almost opposite, broad - lanceolate, pointed and bald.

The two bracts are large, leaf-like and pointed. The flower stems are more or less hairy. There are one to five star-shaped, yellow, threefold, hermaphroditic flowers available. The six equal multiform bracts are elliptic - lanceolate and blunt. The six stamens are about half as long as the perianth. The capsule fruit is thin and triangular.

The flowering period extends from March to July.

Occurrence

The distribution area of the tubed yellow star is from Austria and Switzerland, France (including Corsica ) and Spain to Bulgaria, Greece, Italy (including Sicily ) and Romania, as well as from Turkey by about Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria to Israel, as well as Russia and Kyrgyzstan to China. In Germany the species is found only in the Allgäu Alps. The plant can be found at altitudes from 1200 to 2800 meters on moist, nutrient-rich and calcium-poor soils usually on mountain meadows.

Documents

• Gunter Steinbach (ed.): Alpine Flowers ( Steinbach nature guide ). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1.