Scorzonera curvata (Popl.) Lipsch.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Scorzonera

Characteristics

Herbs 4-7 cm tall, perennial, rosulate. Rootstock dark brown, cylindric, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Caudex densely covered with fibrous and lacerate leaf sheath residues. Stems solitary or few, erect, glabrous. Rosette leaves filiform to filiform-linear, 3-10 cm × 1-1.5 mm, usually flat or twisted, glaucous, glabrous but margin basally arachnoid lanate, apex acuminate. Stem leaves absent or few, scalelike, subulate-lanceolate. Capitulum solitary. Involucre campanulate to narrowly campanulate, ca. 1 cm in diam. in fruit. Phyllaries abaxially glabrous, apex acute to subobtuse; outermost phyllaries triangular to triangular-lanceolate, 5-8 × 2-3 mm. Florets yellow. Achene cylindric, with smooth to tuberculate ribs, shortly villous. Pappus pale brown, ca. 1.2 cm. Fl. and fr. May-Jun.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Distribution

Scorzonera curvata world distribution map, present in China, Liberia, and Mongolia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:243136-1
WFO ID wfo-0000122111
COL ID 4VX8L
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Synonyms

Scorzonera curvata