Scabiosa argentea L. Silver Scabious

Scabiosa argentea L. - Silver Scabious

Scientific Description:

Slender erect biennial or perennial with glabrous or pubescent and setose stems 15−60 cm tall. Lower leaves 1−2-pinnatisect, segments linear; upper leaves usually simple, linear. Involucral bracts 6−8, linear, longer or shorter than flowers. Capitula 1−2.3 cm diam., radiant; flowers white or cream, sometimes flushed mauve. Fruiting head spherical. Involucel 2−2.5 mm, pilose; pits oblong, 1 mm long; ribs between pits not sulcate; corona 1−1.5 mm with 20−26 excurrent nerves. Calyx very shortly stipitate; setae 4.5−6 mm.

 

Flowering time: May−September (−October).

Habitat: Waste places, fields, steppe, stony slopes, s.l.−2500 m.

 

Reference:
Matthews VA (1972). Scabiosa argentea L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 4: 613.

Public Description:

Scabiosa argentea, known as “silver scabious”, is distributed in North America, Eurasia. It is a biennial or perennial herbaceous plant which grows up to 60 cm tall. It has pinnatisect leaves and the flowers in white or cream colours are gathered like a head on the stem. It blooms between May and September and is found in waste places, fields, steppe and stony slopes.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). http://www.rightplants4me.co.uk/content/plant?PlantID=120&LatinName=Scabiosa%20argentea/, Accessed date: 08.02.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=4642///, Accessed date: 08.02.2016.

Göktür S R (2012). Scabiosa 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. 319–322.