Chionodoxa luciliae
Common bluebell ( Chionodoxa luciliae )
The Common bluebell ( Chionodoxa luciliae ), also known as snow or shine Viburnum pride, is a flowering plant in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). Originally from the Boz Dağ Mountains of western Turkey. It is used in temperate regions as an ornamental plant. In Germany it is considered an in- naturalization neophyte.
- 5.1 Notes and references
Description
Appearance and leaves
The Common bluebell grows as a perennial herbaceous plant, reaching heights of growth of usually 3 to 10, rarely up to 32 cm centimeter. She is a Geophyt. Your underground Überdauerungsorgan is an egg-shaped, enveloped by a dark brown tunic onion 12 to 25 millimeters in length and 10 to 18 millimeters wide. The plant has two to four basal leaves. The wide linealische, often slightly recurved leaf blade is about 7 to 20 centimeters long and 4-16 mm wide.
Inflorescences and flowers
The Common bluebell flowers in spring from March to April. On an inflorescence stem usually are one to four rare flowers. You are looking at an upright flower stem that is shorter or as long as the perianth. The hermaphrodite flowers are triple. The six bracts are fused at the base to a 2-6 mm long Perigonröhre, their free part measures 12 to 22 mm. The three inner bracts are wider than the outer, have an irregular shape and a wrinkled appearance. The boundary between the faded white coloration of the "eye" of the flower forming the ground bloom and the bright blue-violet coloration of its upper part runs out of focus. The Common bluebell has two circles, each with three stamens with white filaments and yellow anthers. The stylus is 0.7 to 1.5 mm long.
Fruit and seeds
The spherical with a diameter of 4 to 6 mm capsule fruits contain roundish to elliptical seeds with white Elaiosom.
The Common bluebell is diploid with a chromosome number of 2n = 18
Flowers Ecology
The ordinary bluebell flowers corresponds to the type of disc flower. The nectaries are hidden at the base of the stamens. As typical pollinators act bees, bumblebees, wasps, bee fly and hoverflies.
Occurrence
The ordinary bluebell is wildly known only from the Boz Dağ ( Tmolos Mountains ) in the western Anatolian province of Manisa. It grows at altitudes 1600-2000 meters and blooms immediately after snowmelt.
In temperate latitudes, it is often used as an ornamental and wild, for example, in Central Europe or in North America in parks and forest-like systems. In Germany, it is classified as in naturalization begriffener neophyte.
System
The first description of Chionodoxa luciliae was made in 1844 by Pierre Edmond Boissier. With the epithet Boissier honored his wife Lucile. Synonyms are Scilla luciliae ( Boiss. ) Speta and Chionodoxa gigantea Whittall.
Swell
- Common bluebell. In: FloraWeb.de.
- John McNeill: Chionodoxa. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 26: Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales, Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford et al 2002, ISBN 0-19-515208-5. ( Chionodoxa luciliae online)
- Cheers Gordon (ed.): Botanica. The ABC's of plants. 10,000 species in text and image. Könemann, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8331-1600-5, p 223