Limnanthes douglasii R.Br.

Poached egg plant (en), Meadow-foam (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Limnanthaceae > Limnanthes

Characteristics

Plants 3-35(-100) cm. Stems erect or ascending. Leaves 3-7(-25 cm); leaflets 5-13, blade linear, ovate, or wide-ovate, margins usually toothed or lobed, sometimes entire. Flowers cup-, bell-, or funnel-shaped; sepals narrowly lanceolate-ovate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 4-10 mm (glabrous or ciliate); petals white, yellow, or yellow with white tips (sometimes greenish yellow basally), cuneate, obovate, spatulate, or obovate-spatulate, 7-18 mm, apex usually emarginate, sometimes truncate or obcordate; filaments 2-7 mm; anthers usually cream or yellow, sometimes dark pink, orange-red, or nearly black, 0.8-1.5 mm; style 3-8 mm. Nutlets dark brown, black, or gray, 2-5 mm, smooth, ridged, or tuberculate (at least apically), tubercles or ridges brown, pinkish, gray, or whitish, lamellar, planar, conical, rounded, or blunt.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.13 - 0.33
Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Moist places below 1000 metres.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

Uses environmental use
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Limnanthes douglasii leaf picture by AMANDA BRAND (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Limnanthes douglasii flower picture by Chris Pinder (cc-by-sa)
Limnanthes douglasii flower picture by Danny Hayes (cc-by-sa)
Limnanthes douglasii flower picture by Nobel Johannes (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Limnanthes douglasii world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30052665-2
WFO ID wfo-0001073392
COL ID 6QBZD
BDTFX ID 38993
INPN ID 106004
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Floerkea douglasii Limnanthes howelliana Limnanthes douglasii var. douglasii Limnanthes douglasii subsp. douglasii Limnanthes douglasii

Lower taxons

Limnanthes douglasii var. nivea Limnanthes douglasii var. sulphurea Limnanthes douglasii subsp. striata Limnanthes douglasii subsp. sulphurea Limnanthes douglasii subsp. nivea Limnanthes douglasii subsp. rosea Limnanthes douglasii subsp. ornduffii