Ursinia anthemoides (L.) Poir.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ursinia

Characteristics

Erect, annual herb, up to 0.5 m tall, stems often reddish. Leaves alternate, 20-50 mm long, pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Flowerheads radiate, solitary, long-pedunculate; involucral bracts densely imbricate, ± pubescent or glabrous, outer ovate with membranous margins, middle ones ovate or oblong with triangular apex, inner oblong with ovate-rotundate appendages, outer 3 or 4 rows often with dark brown margins; ray florets yellow often with a purple spot at base, occasionally reddish below; disc florets yellow or purplish tipped, paleae truncate. Cypselas ± curved.
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Annual to 50 cm. Leaves pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, 20-50 mm long. Flower heads radiate, solitary at branch tips, yellow or orange, sometimes with a dark ring and darker on reverse, 15-60 mm diam.; pappus scales 5, uniseriate.
For description of subspecies occurring in Australia see Ursinia anthemoides (L.) Poir. subsp. anthemoides.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 4-6
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 11-12

Usage

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

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Ursinia anthemoides unspecified picture

Distribution

Ursinia anthemoides world distribution map, present in Australia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:149359-3
WFO ID wfo-0000138114
COL ID 7F2FT
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Ursinia anthemoides Sphenogyne anthemoides var. anthemoides Ursinia anthemoides

Lower taxons

Ursinia anthemoides subsp. versicolor Ursinia anthemoides subsp. anthemoides