Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.

Sharpleaf cancerwort (en), Linaire élatine (fr), Kickxie élatine (fr), Velvote (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae > Kickxia

Characteristics

Annual or sometimes perennial. Stems much-branched and sometimes mat-forming, pilose, often densely so. Lvs petiolate, usually shortly so. Lamina to 4 × 2 cm, but often < 10 × 7 mm, ovate and always at least some hastate, sometimes only 1 side lobed, ± glandular-hairy; base cordate to truncate; apex obtuse and mucronate, acute or short-acuminate, less often rounded. Fls solitary or in axillary racemes. Pedicels long, slender, pilose throughout or only towards apex. Calyx 3-5 mm long, somewhat accrescent, hairy; lobes = or > tube, lanceolate to ovate, short-acuminate. Corolla 10-13 mm long including spur (in fresh specimens), pale yellow with purplish upper lip; spur straight or nearly so. Capsule 3-4 mm long. Seeds c. 1 mm long, broad-ellipsoid, strongly alveolate.
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Stems freely branched, villous, to 5 dm; petioles 1–5 mm; lvs broadly ovate to triangular-ovate, 1–3 cm, truncate at base, ± hastate by the development of 1–2 low teeth at the lateral angles; pedicels very slender, 1–3 cm, glabrous throughout or villosulous near the base and summit only; fls as in no. 1 [Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort.]; 2n=18, 36. Native of Eurasia, established as a weed in moist sandy soil in most of our range, s. to Fla. and La. June–Sept. (Linaria e.)
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.5
Root system -
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Arable land, usually cornfields in light soils.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Astringent (unspecified), Detergent (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Ulnerary (unspecified), Scurvy (unspecified), Liver (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified), Debility (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
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Images

Habit

Kickxia elatine habit picture by Philippe Levarlet (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Kickxia elatine leaf picture by Edith Gayot-Boudier (cc-by-sa)
Kickxia elatine leaf picture by Philippe Mortier (cc-by-sa)
Kickxia elatine leaf picture by andré frommelt (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Kickxia elatine flower picture by Tim Burton (cc-by-sa)
Kickxia elatine flower picture by Tom Fisher (cc-by-sa)
Kickxia elatine flower picture by Patrick Nard (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Kickxia elatine world distribution map, present in Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Switzerland, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Réunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Uruguay, United States of America, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:804092-1
WFO ID wfo-0000357274
COL ID 6NKXH
BDTFX ID 36916
INPN ID 104502
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Linaria x brebissonii Linaria elatinoides Tursitis flexuosa Tursitis filifera Tursitis elatine Linaria auriculata Elatinoides elatine Anarrhinum elatum Antirrhinum auriculatum Antirrhinum elatine Antirrhinum elatiniflorum Elatine hastata Linaria elatine Linaria crenifolia Simbuleta elata Antirrhinum cymbalaria Cymbalaria elatine Cymbalaria commuta Kickxia elatine subsp. elatine Kickxia elatine

Lower taxons

Kickxia elatine subsp. crinita