Veronicastrum rhombifolium (Hand.-mazz.) P.C.Tsoong

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae > Veronicastrum

Characteristics

Rhizomes short. Stems often erect, ca. 50 cm tall, rarely trailing and rooting and ca. 1 m, angular, wingless, with multicellular hirsute hairs. Leaves alternate; petiole short; leaf blade often rhomboid, rarely rhomboid-ovate, 4-6 X 1.5-3 cm, papery, with multicellular hispid hairs, sometimes abaxially purple, margin serrate to crenate. Inflorescences axillary, sometimes surrounded by several leafy involucrate bracts and appearing terminal, 1-3 cm, horizontal or pendulous in fruit. Bracts and calyx lobes lanceolate to subulate, densely ciliate, slightly shorter or as long as corolla. Corolla purple, red, or white, 5-6 mm, straight; limb actinomorphic; lobes subulate-triangular, 1/3-1/2 of corolla length. Stamens conspicuously exserted; filaments hairy. Capsule ovoid, 3-4 mm. Seeds ovoid-globose, ca. 0.4 mm; seed coat reticulate. Fl. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.5
Root system rhizome
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Root diameter (meter) -
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
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Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

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

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 21 - 40
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Veronicastrum rhombifolium world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:812868-1
WFO ID wfo-0001139897
COL ID 5B7L9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Botryopleuron rhombifolium Veronicastrum rhombifolium