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Bassia hyssopifolia (Pall.) Kuntze

Fivehorn smotherweed (en), Bassia (fr), Bassie à feuilles d'hysope (fr), Kochie à feuilles d'hysope (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Bassia

Characteristics

Plants much branched, 20-70 cm tall, densely lanate-villous when young; branches obliquely spreading. Leaf blade oblanceolate to linear, 0.8-2.5 cm × 1-3 mm, densely villous on both surfaces, base attenuate, apex obtuse or acute. Flowers usually 2 or 3 per glomerule, these arranged in dense spikes on upper part of branches. Perianth 5-lobed; segments reflexed at apex; abaxial appendages uncinate, exceeding perianth. Seed horizontal, smooth. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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Erect annual to 1 m high. Branches slender with thin cottony indumentum when young. Leaves linear to oblanceolate, 5–10 mm long, sparsely cottony or glabrous. Flowers in axillary clusters of 2 or 3. Fruiting perianth depressed-spherical, pilose, 5-lobed, with 5 uncinately incurved spines arising from base of lobes. Seed horizontal.
Plants 5-100 cm. Stems divari-cately branched or simple. Leaves sessile (or sometimes narrowed into pseudopetiole); blade lanceolate-elliptic, lanceolate, or linear, flat, base cuneate. Inflorescences with ± straight axes. Perianth segments with thin, hooked spine adaxially at maturity. 2n = 18.
Much like no. 1 [Bassia hirsuta (L.) Asch.]; lvs flat, to 2(–3.5) cm; spikes slender, terete, 4 mm thick, with straight axis; all sep with a slender, hooked dorsal spine; 2n=18. Native of Eurasia, intr. especially along the seashore from Mass. to N.J., and also in w. U.S.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
Spread epizoochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.65
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.2
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Flower color
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JulAugSep
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AprMayJun
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OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c4

Environment

Light 7-8
Soil humidity 4-5
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 5-9
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

Uses animal food medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Germination temperacture (C°) -
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Minimum temperature (C°) -23
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Images

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Distribution

Bassia hyssopifolia world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Chile, China, Spain, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States of America, Uzbekistan, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:29802-2
WFO ID wfo-0000561148
COL ID KVC3
BDTFX ID 9274
INPN ID 85627
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Bassia reuteriana Chenopodium lanuginosum Salsola hyssopifolia Suaeda hyssopifolia Echinopsilon hyssopifolius Echinopsilon lanatus Echinopsilon reuterianus Bassia hyssopifolia Kochia hyssopifolia Chenopodium villosum Kochia hyssopifolia Salsola hissopifolia Chenopodium augustanum Bassia hyssopifolia subsp. reuteriana
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