Globularia cordifolia

Nodding Pincushion flower ball ( Globularia cordifolia )

The ball Nodding Pincushion Flower ( Globularia cordifolia ) belongs to the family of the plantain family ( Plantaginaceae ). It is probably a fairly recent type that has emerged only after the ice ages.

Description

The herbaceous perennial plant forms a dense evergreen grass ( carpet-like braid) with creeping, semiwoody only at the base of branches. Only the flower-bearing branches are erect and are up to 10 cm high. The leaves are arranged in rosettes, 4-7 mm long, lanceolate and forward slightly indented heart-shaped. Flowers in hemispherical 1-15 cm wide head, single flowers fünfzipfelig; The crown is zweilippig long by 7 mm purple and blue. The fruit is 2 mm long. Flowering June to July.

The carpet-like braid collects as a Reuse the trickling down from the rock humus.

Dissemination

As the site rock interspersed grass, rock crevices, humus ceilings are preferred over rocks on limestone soils.

The circulation area covers the mountains in central and southern Europe from the Pyrenees to the Balkans, in the Swiss Jura and the Limestone Alps at altitudes of about 2000 m above sea level. In Austria frequently in all provinces. In Switzerland, in the Alps, the Central Plateau and the Jura.