Crupina vulgaris Cass. Common Crupina

Crupina vulgaris Cass. - Common Crupina

Scientific Description:

Plant 10−60 cm, unbranched except in inflorescence. Lower leaves up to 5 × 2 cm, ovate in outline, deeply pinnatifid to pinnate, segments narrowly linear, entire to faintly serrate, rachis glabrous; upper leaves decreasing in size; branches of corymb leafless. Capitula pedunculate or sessile. Involucre fusiform when young, expanding to narrowly obconical, in fruit 14−23 × 7−12 mm; phyllaries elliptic, acute, striped green or purplish. Flowers pink or light purple, exceeding involucre; corolla tube bearing hairs whose walls are produced into lateral finger-like recurved projections. Achenes cylindrical, 3−5 × 1.5−3 mm, with suborbicular median basal hilum. Outer pappus 4−7 mm.

 

Flowering time: May−July.

Habitat: Steppe, open places on uncultivated calcareous or clay soil, s.I.−2000 m.

 

Reference:
Davis PH (1975). Crupina vulgaris Cass., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 587.

Public Description:

Crupina vulgaris, commonly known as “common crupina” or “false saw-wort”, grows naturally in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it is known elsewhere as an introduced species and often a noxious weed. It is an annual herb with pink flowers, and grows up to 60 cm in length. It blooms between May and July and can grow in many types of habitat, including fields, pastures, grasslands, roadsides, railroads, and dump sites.

 

References:

Anonymous (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/Crupina_vulgaris, Accessed date: 13.11.2017.

Ekim T (2012). Crupina (Pers.) DC., 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. 154.