Asphodeline lutea

Yellow Asphodel ( Asphodeline lutea)

The Yellow Asphodel ( Asphodeline lutea ) is a plant of the genus Junker Lilies ( Asphodeline ) in the subfamily Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ).

Features

The Yellow asphodel is a bald, perennial herbaceous plant. It forms a short rhizome and fleshy roots. The stem is strong and reaches stature heights of 40 to 120 centimeters, is leafy and covered by the leaf sheaths. The leaves are up to 35 centimeters long and 5 mm wide, linear, grass -like and triangular in cross section. The unbranched, racemose inflorescence is dense and 10 to 40 inches long. The bracts are having a length of 2 to 3.5 inches longer than the pedicels jointed near the middle. The six bracts are yellow with green midrib, 2 to 2.5 inches long and short fused together at the base. The diameter of the nearly spherical capsule fruit is about 1 inch.

The flowering period extends from March to June.

Occurrence

The Yellow Asphodel comes in the central and eastern Mediterranean on grassy cliff halls, in Garriguen and Macchien ago.

Documents

• Ehrentraud Bayer, Karl Peter Buttler, Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Gray: Plants of the Mediterranean ( The colored nature guide ). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1986.