Pimpinella saxifraga
Small burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella Saxifraga )
The Small burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella Saxifraga ), also Common burnet, burnet stone, stone ipecac, stone parsley, Bock Wurz, savory or Bumbernell called, is a species of the genus of beaver Nellen (Pimpinella ).
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Description
Vegetative characteristics
The Small burnet is a perennial herbaceous plant and a Hemikryptophyt, achieved the stature heights rarely between 10 to mostly 40 and 60 centimeters. The circular cross-section, grooved stalk is almost full, glabrous or shortly hairy and has fitting in the upper part only spreitenlose leaf sheaths. The root does not change color when cut.
The leaves are distributed basal and alternate on the stem. The pinnate basal leaves have rounded - ovate with coarsely serrated blunt Fiederabschnitte leaf edge and bare upper leaf surface and loosely hairy leaf. The oblong in outline and bald or hairy hand, stem leaves are very variable. Some of them have lineal, ganzrandige Fiederabschnitte, in part, the stem leaves are cut twice fiedrig.
Generative features
The Small burnet flowers from June to October in large, showy, rayed (8 - to 15 -beam ) Doppeldoldigen inflorescences. Characteristic of the beaver Nellen is the lack of bracts, sepals and Hüllchenblättern. The flowers are fünfzählig. The white petals are about 1 mm long. After the fall of the petals of the pen is clearly visible, it is up to 1 mm long and shorter than fruit and stylus pad together.
The 2 to 2.5 mm long, marked with indistinct ribs, bare fruits are on the ground weakly cordate and already after flowering longer than the pen.
The chromosome number is 2n = 40
Different leaf shapes
Inflorescence from above
Fruit stand
Ecology
The Small burnet is the food plant of the caterpillars of the burnet Widderchens and the caterpillars of the West Asian- Mediterranean, in Germany extremely rare burnet Bergwieseneule ( Sideridis Lampra ).
In addition, the Small burnet is pimpinellae the host plant of the rust fungus Puccinia.
Occurrence
The Small burnet is native to Europe, Central Asia, Asia Minor and the Caucasus. In Europe, the distribution area of Southern Europe to Northern Europe ranges, sometimes up to 70 ° north latitude.
In Germany, the Small burnet is probably a archaeophyte. It is abundantly occurring, the stock through the intensification of land use but returned safely. Nevertheless, it is not threatened.
The Small burnet is found in individual plant specimens to light rich to sunny, moderately dry, nutrient-poor, calcareous sites. It grows like on raw soils, in dry grasslands and dwarf shrub heath, like in community with wings broom ( Genista sagittal ). The Small burnet is considered lean pointer.
Medical benefits
The seeds and roots ( " root stock ") of the Small burnet is collected and used as a drug Pimpinellae radix. In particular, the root contains 0.4 % essential oil and various coumarin derivatives, most notably Pimpillin. The drug has a spicy scent, a spicy flavor and a sharp, acrid aftertaste.
As medical effects are: The burnet root is an expectorant and a Sud can be gargled for diseases of the throat. Drunk of the Sud acts as a stomachic, but also diuretic and promotes menstruation. In the liquor industry, the root is also used for flavoring bitters.
Swell
- Small burnet. In: FloraWeb.de. ( Description section )