Dorycnium hirsutum
Rough Haired Back clover ( Dorycnium hirsutum )
The Rough-haired Back clover ( Dorycnium hirsutum ), even baking Long haired Hairy clover or clover called back, a plant species in the subfamily of the Fabaceae is ( Faboideae ).
Description
The Rough-haired Back clover grows as a perennial herbaceous plant, reaching heights of growth of 20 to 50 centimeters. The plant develops from a bud which overwinters on the ground. Because of their strong pubescence, the plant on a silvery-whitish appearance. Stems, leaves and sepals are provided with up to 2 mm long, projecting hairs ( trichomes ). The alternate arranged leaves are sessile. The three-part leaf blade and the two side blades produce a five-part acting foliage leaf. The leaflets are broadly lanceolate and over the middle at the widest, the lowest pair is located next to the leaf-like stems.
The flowering period extends from May to July. A few ( five to ten) flowers are united in a little head -like inflorescence. The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic, up to 2 inches long and fünfzählig double perianth. The five white to pale pink petals stand together to a corolla with the typical form of the Fabaceae. In contrast to the Herbaceous Back clover the tips of the wings are not fused together at the long-haired Back clover. The bulbous, ranging legume is like the cup 8 to 12 inches long and contains up to six seeds.
Occurrence
The Rough-haired Back clover is located around the Mediterranean Sea ( to the Southern Alps ), in Portugal, and West Asia. He prefers dry, rocky slopes. He mainly grows in the colline level, but comes to the montane stage before.
Swell
- Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Exkursionsflora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. Second, improved and expanded edition. Province of Upper Austria, Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5.
- Pietro Zangheri: Flora d' Italia, CEDAM, Padova, 1976
- Schmetterlingsblütler