Asperula taurinaL. Pink Woodruff

Asperula taurinaL. - Pink Woodruff

Scientific Description:

Perennial. Rhizome with ± horizontal, subterranean, orange stolons. Stems numerous, 20−50 cm, erect, quadrangular, ± hispid, glabrescent towards base, simple or ± branched. Leaves hairy along veins and margins, ± glabrous elsewhere; corolla white or tinged with pale lilac. Leaves 30−80 × 10−27 mm, lanceolate to broadly ovate, ± obtuse to acuminate, abruptly narrowed at base and shortly petiolate (petioles to c. 4 mm), with 3(−5) main veins, hispid mainly along veins and margins. Flowers in head-like cymes, surrounded by involucral leaves and by long-ciliate, oblanceolate bracts. Corolla white to lilac-blue, 8−14 mm, narrowly infundibular; tube 6−10.5 mm; lobes 2−5 mm, oblong. Stamens exceeding corolla lobes, with pale lilac to lilac-blue, linear anthers 1.3−1.8 mm. Mericarps subglobose, 3−4 mm diam., minutely granulate-rugose, glabrous.

 

Flowering time: April−August

Habitat: Forests and scrub, dry open places, among rocks, 150−2100 m.

 

Reference:

Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Asperula taurina L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 758.

Public Description:

Asperula taurina, common name “pink woodruff”, is native to Europe and Asia. It is a perennial herb with white or pale lilac flowers, grows up to 50 cm in lenght. It blooms between April and August and is found in forests and scrub, dry open places, among rocks.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2017). http://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/plant/asperula-taurina, Accessed date: 22.03.2017.

Anonymous 2 (2017). https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperula_taurina, Accessed date: 22.03.2017.

Minareci E (2012) Asperula L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 816–819.