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Ixeris chinensis subsp. versicolor (fisch. ex Link) Kitam.

Changing-color ixeris (en)

Subspecies

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Characteristics

Herbs usually 10-20 cm tall. Stems several, ascending-erect. Rosette leaves to 17 cm. Stem leaves usually (0 or)1 or 2. Capitula with 15-25 florets. Involucre 8-9 mm. Floret color variable within a population, white, purplish, pale yellow, or rarely also bright yellow. Achene 4-6 mm. Fl. and fr. Mar-Sep.
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A herb. It grows 10-20 cm tall. There are several stems. The leaves are in a ring. They are 17 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 0.2
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows on sandy soils and along rivers between 100-4,000 m above sea level in China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Young plants are eaten.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves stems
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Ixeris chinensis subsp. versicolor world distribution map, present in China, Liberia, Mongolia, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77181409-1
WFO ID wfo-0000038340
COL ID 5J5R4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ixeris lanceolata Ixeris versicolor Chondrilla versicolor Barkhausia versicolor Ixeris scaposa Lactuca fischeriana Crepis pseudovirens Lagoseris versicolor Ixeris graminea Ixeridium biparum Lactuca versicolor Ixeridium gramineum Crepis versicolor Lactuca rubrolutea Crepis vanioti Crepis graminifolia Lactuca crepidioides Prenanthes versicolor Prenanthes graminea Ixeris chinensis subsp. versicolor Ixeris lanceolata subsp. lanceolata Ixeridium chinense subsp. versicolor Ixeris chinensis var. graminifolia Ixeris chinensis subsp. graminifolia Ixeridium chinense subsp. graminifolium Ixeris chinensis var. intermedia Crepis taraxacifolia var. vanioti Ixeris chinensis subsp. hallaisanensis Ixeris graminifolia Ixeridium graminifolium Paraixeris graminea
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