Anacyclus clavatus

Lobe Bertram ( Anacyclus clavatus )

The lobe Bertram ( Anacyclus clavatus ) is a plant from the sunflower family ( Asteraceae).

Features

The lobe Bertram is an annual plant that reaches the plant height of 15 to 50 centimeters. The leaves are 2- 3- pinnate with narrow, finely inked sections. The heads have a diameter (without the ray florets ) of 15-20 mm. The bracts are ovate - lanceolate, pointed, white or purple edged and have no appendages. The rays are 7-14 mm long and white. Sometimes they are short, straight and not longer than the shell. After the heyday of the flowering shoots are thickened upwards. The outer fruit have at the top of the wings upright, rounded lobes. The chromosome number is 2n = 18 The flowering period extends from June to July.

Occurrence

The lobe Bertram comes in the Mediterranean in sparse forests, meadows and on sand and gravel from the ocean beach to the montane stage before.

Use

The lobe Bertram is rarely used as an ornamental plant.

Documents

• Eckhart J. Hunter, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd Müller, K. (ed.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora of Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8.
• Thomas Gaskell Tutin: Anacyclus L. In: Th G. Tutin, among other things: Flora Europaea. Volume 4, page 168 Cambridge University Press 1976. ISBN 0-521-08717-1
• Peter Schoenfelder, Ingrid Schoenfelder: The New Cosmos Mediterranean flora. Kosmos Verlag Stuttgart, 2008. ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3