Ammobium alatum

Paper knobs ( Ammobium alatum )

The paper knobs or immortelle ( Ammobium alatum ) is a plant from the sunflower family ( Asteraceae).

Features

The paper Knöpfchen grows in his home as a perennial herbaceous plant. In Central Europe, but it is cultivated as an annual summer flower. The species reaches stature heights of about 50 cm. It forms a rosette with indented base leaves. In its heyday, a multi- branched, winged stems is formed. The terminal fitting yellow tubular flowers are now black and white of a wreath, paper-like bracts surround.

Blooms from July to September.

Occurrence

The paper Knöpfchen is located in New South Wales (Australia).

Use

The plant was later introduced in 1822 as a dry flower to England and shortly after Germany. The Lower Sorbian folk name jeleńecy rog (meaning deer antlers ) refers to the branched flower stems and can be attributed to this plant.