Kickxia spuria

Eiblättriges Tännelkraut ( Kickxia spuria )

The Eiblättrige Tännelkraut ( Kickxia spuria ), also called spurious Tännelkraut or Ehrenbreissweible, is a member of the family of the plantain family ( Plantaginaceae ). For the scientific name is synonymous spurium Antirrhinum.

Appearance

The annual herbaceous plant usually reaches stature heights of 5 to 15 cm and a length of 10 to 30 cm. The stem grows beginning mostly upright, but soon branched decumbent. He is fädlich and more or less long hairy- glandular.

The leaves are ovate - rounded, have a rounded base and are like the stems glandular - pubescent and long. Rarely they are serrated and weakly pike shaped.

The flower stems are long - haired shaggy. The flowers sit individually in the leaf axils and are long-petiolate. The crown has to spur a length of about 10 to 13 mm and is colored bright yellow. The upper lip is black inside purple. The spur is curved and obtuse.

The fruit is a capsule cap.

The Eiblättrige Tännelkraut predominantly flowers from July to September.

Habitat requirements and distribution

The Eiblättrige Tännelkraut grows in grain and stubble fields and on waste land. It prefers moderately - fresh, nutrient - and base-rich, calcium-poor and electron-rich, little rich, sandy or pure clay and clay soils. It is a very Lehmzeiger and warmth.

Kickxia spuria comes from Southern Europe to the Caucasus and West Asia. In Central Asia and Central Europe, is naturalized abducted. It is a sub-Mediterranean - subatlantisches Florenelement.

In Austria it is in the Pannonian area rarely, otherwise very rarely occurring. In Switzerland it is to locate generally scattered.

The Eiblättrige Tännelkraut comes in the middle and in the southwest of Germany before scattered. In addition, there is usually no.