Dipsacus laciniatus
Flower heads of the teasel ( Dipsacus laciniatus )
The the teasel ( Dipsacus laciniatus ) is a species of the genus of the card ( Dipsacus ) in the subfamily of the teasel family ( Dipsacoideae ). It is valid in Austria as at home, while in Germany as a naturalized neophyte. The the teasel is similar to the wild teasel ( Dipsacus fullonum ).
Features
The the teasel is a biennial or perennial plant hapaxanthe, the plant height of 50 to 120, rarely up to 200 centimeters reached. The stems are dickstachelig. The stem leaves are on the ground in pairs bowl-shaped adherent (water containers, known Phytotelma ), pinnatifid and bristly ciliate at the edge. The bracts are extended and are far from. The flower heads are cone-shaped. The flowers are white.
Bloom time is from July to August.
The chromosome number is n = 9
Occurrence
The the teasel comes in warm to hot temperate Europe and West Asia to fresh to moist waste places and forest edges before. It is nutrient- demanding.
In Austria, the kind rarely occurs in the provinces of Burgenland, Lower Austria, North Tyrol and Vienna, and unstable in Carinthia, Upper Austria and Styria in the hill and altitude level and is considered endangered. It occurs here at forest edges, in meadows, on waste places and cemeteries.
Use
The the teasel is rarely used as an ornamental plant in gardens nature. Finding the fruit stands for wreaths and bouquets dry use.
Gallery
Leaves of the teasel
Typical: Long " spines" on flower head
Flower head in winter
Stem leaves with " water tanks "
Habit
Dipsacus laciniatus Museum specimen