Selasa, 22 Juni 2010

The Wooly Thistle Plant

The woolly thistle (Cirsium Eriophorum) is a biennial plant that belongs to the composite family (Compositae or Asteraceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as very rare and stable or increased. The plant occurs naturally from northern England to the Balkans and the Apennines and the Pyrenees. In the Netherlands for the plant on South Beveland near Nijmegen.

The plant is 50-120 cm high. The leaves have a folded edge and rolled to the bottom witviltig hairy. The dark green leaves are hard, yellow spines.

The woolly thistle flowers in July and August with single heads. The reddish purple, sometimes white tubular flowers are in 4-7 cm wide flower heads. The involucre is flattened spherical and covered with spider-like, woolly hair.

The fruit is a nut with fruit fluff.

The plant is on embankment slopes on a damp, lime, nitrogen-rich soil.




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollige_distel

See also: Sending Flowers, Online Florist

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