Pimpinella

Anise (Pimpinella anisum )

The Beavers Nellen (Pimpinella ), also called Pimpernellen or Pimpinellen, are a plant genus of the family Umbelliferae ( Apiaceae ), with approximately 150 species. The economically most important type is the anise.

The Small burnet is indeed often called burnet, however, is a rose plant.

Features

The Beavers Nellen are perennial, rarely annual herbaceous plants. The basal leaves are undivided or simply pinnate. The leaflets are serrated and sometimes cut deep.

The flowers of the beaver Nellen have an indistinct cup edge, ausgerandete, inverted ovoid petals and a stylus on with almost capitate stigma. The flowers are white, red, and yellow less common.

The fruit is an ovoid, at the side contracted schizocarp. The one on the contact surface rather flat core mass is curved hump -like, free fruit holder ( Karpophor ) has two columns.

Species

The genus includes about 150 species, of which 16 are in Europe. In Central Europe the following are native:

• Small burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella Saxifraga L.)
• Black saxifrage (Pimpinella nigra million )
• Great burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella major ( L.) Huds. )
• Alpine saxifrage (Pimpinella alpina host)

• Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.), not native, but sometimes cultivated and rare wild.
• Strangers burnet (Pimpinella peregrina L.), introduced from the Mediterranean region and inconstant

In Europe also occur (selection):

• Pimpinella anisoides Briganti, occurs only in Italy and Sicily
• Pimpinella bicknellii Briq. , Occurs only in Mallorca
• Pimpinella cretica Poir. , Occurs in Greece and the Aegean
• Pimpinella lutea Desf. , Occurs in Corsica, Sicily, Algeria and Tunisia
• Pimpinella procumbens ( Boiss. ) H. Wolff, comes only in the Sierra Nevada in Spain before
• Pimpinella tragium Vill., With several subspecies
• Pimpinella villosa Schousboe, is found in Spain, Portugal and the Azores

Pictures

Great burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella major)

Small burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella Saxifraga )