Helenium puberulum Dc.

Rosilla (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helenium

Characteristics

Annual or short-lived perennial herb, c. 0.5-1 m tall. Stems sparsely hairy, becoming glabrous, sometimes sparsely glandular, ribbed, much-branched above and below, with the decurrent lvs forming conspicuous wings. Lower and mid cauline lvs sparsely hairy and densely glandular on both surfaces, apetiolate but narrowed to base in lowermost lvs, elliptic to lanceolate, entire, or shallowly sinuate, 3-13 × 0.5-2.5 cm; uppermost lvs becoming smaller, narrower, and more lanceolate or narrow-triangular. Capitula 10-20 mm diam., long-pedunculate in loose cymes. Outer involucral bracts densely hairy, foliaceous, linear or linear-lanceolate, 4-8 mm long; inner bracts ± glabrous, membranous, c. 2 mm long. Ligules of ray florets inconspicuous, yellow, 3-6 mm long, soon reflexed; disc florets numerous, yellow or tinged brown. Achenes brown, 8-10-ribbed and somewhat angled, glandular, 1.5-2 mm long; ribs with antrorse hairs; pappus scales 5-6, ovate-triangular, aristate and finely laciniate, c. 1 mm long.
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A herb.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Moist meadows, marshes, slough banks etc, below 600 metres in California. Along streams, ditches, seepage areas, around ponds and lakes, forests, woodlands, sea level to 1200 metres.
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It is a temperate plant.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use Cold Remedy (unspecified), Dermatological Aid (unspecified), Venereal Aid (unspecified), Catarrh (unspecified), Antiscorbutic (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Helenium puberulum leaf picture by Joshua West (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Helenium puberulum flower picture by Joshua West (cc-by-sa)
Helenium puberulum flower picture by Joshua West (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Helenium puberulum fruit picture by Randy Huey (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Helenium puberulum world distribution map, present in Mexico, New Zealand, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:211883-1
WFO ID wfo-0000130226
COL ID 3K4MM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Helenium puberulum Helenium californicum Cephalophora decurrens Helenium decurrens Helenium pubescens Heleniastrum puberulum Helenium puberulum var. puberulum