Limnanthes alba Hartw. ex Benth.

White meadowfoam (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes

Characteristics

Plants 8-40 cm; herbage glabrous or sparsely to densely hairy. Stems erect. Leaves 2-10 cm; leaflets 5-9, blade oblong, ovate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, margins entire or shallowly 2-lobed to deeply 3-lobed. Flowers bowl-to bell-shaped; sepals accrescent or not, lanceolate, ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4-8 mm; petals white or cream (sometimes cream basally, aging or drying pink or lilac), obovate, obovate-cuneate, or obcordate, 8-16 mm, 1-1.5 times as long as wide, 1.25-2.1 times longer than sepals, apex usually emarginate, sometimes truncate; filaments 3-6 mm; anthers 1-2 mm; style 2-6 mm. Nutlets gray or dark brown, 3-4 mm, tuberculate or not, sometimes ridged, tubercles gray or dark brown, relatively low and wide. 2n = 10.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.2
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.5
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Vernal pools or low moist open places from sea level to 1200 metres. The sub-species L. alba versicolor(Greene.)C.T.Mason. grows at elevations up to 1600 metres.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use fodder fuel material medicinal oil
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 8 - 16
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Limnanthes alba unspecified picture

Distribution

Limnanthes alba world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:140188-2
WFO ID wfo-0001073389
COL ID 72BZF
BDTFX ID 121951
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Floerkea alba Limnanthes alba Limnanthes alba var. alba Limnanthes alba subsp. alba

Lower taxons

Limnanthes alba subsp. gracilis Limnanthes alba subsp. parishii Limnanthes alba subsp. versicolor