WorldFloraDB - Asperugo procumbens

Characteristics

Stem slender, to 90 cm tall, hollow, with 5 or 6 longitudinal ribs, glochidiate along ribs, usually branched. Lower stem leaves petiolate, spatulate or narrowly oblong, 5-8 × 0.8-1.5 cm, sparsely minutely hispid, margin entire or finely dentate; upper stem leaves sessile, becoming gradually smaller and subopposite. Pedicel short or absent. Calyx ca. 1.6 mm, parted to below middle, minutely hispid; lobes somewhat unequal, linear-lanceolate, to 8 mm wide after anthesis. Corolla blue, ca. 2.5 mm; tube longer than limb; throat appendages tuberclelike; lobes of limb somewhat unequal, broadly ovate to ovate. Anther ca. 0.6 mm. Style ca. 0.8 mm, included. Nutlets narrowly ovoid, ca. 3 mm; attachment scar orbicular. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 48.

More

A herb. It lies along the ground. It grows each year from seeds. It can be a climber. It grows 90 cm tall. The stems are slender and hollow with 5 or 6 ribs along them. The lower stem leaves have leaf stalks and are spoon shaped. They are 5-8 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. Stem further up the stem do not have stalks and become smaller. The flowers are blue.

Stems 3–12 dm, freely branched; lvs oblanceolate, 3–6(–10) cm, or the upper more elliptic; cor 2–3 mm long and wide; fruiting cal 1–2 cm wide; 2n=48. Native of Eurasia, occasionally found in waste places in our range, especially northward. May–Aug.

Life form

annual

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

epizoochory

Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

0.8 - 0.9

Root system

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Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in dry places. It can grow in arid places.

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Uses	food material medicinal
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Therapeutic use	Antirheumatic agents (seed)
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