Knautia degenii L. Yaban Eşekkulağı (in Turkish)

Knautia degenii L. - Yaban Eşekkulağı (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Erect annual with pubescent and setose stems, reflexed-setose below, spreading setose above, 20−40 cm tall. Lower leaves lanceolate, entire or dentate; upper leaves pinnatisect. Peduncles becoming glandular-hairy towards top. Involucral bracts 10−15, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, prominently nerved, glandular hairy and pilose. Capitula 0.5−2 cm diam, few-flowered, radiant, outer flowers with lanceolate petals; corolla purple-violet or bluish. Involucel 4.5−5 mm, sparsely pilose, apex with several short teeth. Calyx with numerous fine hair-like setae.

 

Flowering time: May−July.

Habitat: Fields and roadsides, below 400 m.

 

Reference:
Matthews VA (1972). Knautia degenii L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 4: 599−600.

Public Description:

Knautia degenii, known as “yaban eşekkulağı” in Turkish, grows naturally in Türkiye and the immediate vicinity. It is an annual herb with purple-violet or bluish flowers, up to 40 cm in length. It blooms between May and July and is found in fields and roadsides.

 

References:

Anonymous (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=4615/, Accessed date: 08.02.2016.

Göktürk S R (2012). Knautia 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. 317–318.