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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Pulicaria |
Species: | P. dysenterica
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Binomial name | |
Pulicaria dysenterica |
Pulicaria dysenterica, the common fleabane, [1] or, in North America, meadow false fleabane, [2] is a species of fleabane in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia where it grows in a variety of habitats ranging from semi-arid Mediterranean woodlands to wetter situations. [3] Pulicaria dysenterica is perennial and can form dense clusters of plants, spreading by its roots. It flowers at its maximum height of about 60 centimetres (2.0 ft). [4] Leaves are alternately arranged and clasp the stem, which itself contains a salty- astringent liquid. The yellow inflorescences are typically composed of a prominent centre of 40–100 disc florets surrounded by 20–30 narrow, pistillate ray florets. When setting seed the flower heads reflex. [5]
Common fleabane is the main food plant for the fleabane tortoise beetle ( Cassida murraea), [6] and for four micromoths, Apodia bifractella, [7] Ptocheuusa paupella, [8] dusky plume ( Oidaematophorus lithodactyla) [9] and Digitivalva pulicariae. [10]
Fleabane's common name comes from its former use as an incense to drive away insects. [5] Other past uses include treatments for dysentery and unspecified ocular maladies. [3]
Media related to
Pulicaria dysenterica at Wikimedia Commons
Pulicaria dysenterica | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Pulicaria |
Species: | P. dysenterica
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Binomial name | |
Pulicaria dysenterica |
Pulicaria dysenterica, the common fleabane, [1] or, in North America, meadow false fleabane, [2] is a species of fleabane in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia where it grows in a variety of habitats ranging from semi-arid Mediterranean woodlands to wetter situations. [3] Pulicaria dysenterica is perennial and can form dense clusters of plants, spreading by its roots. It flowers at its maximum height of about 60 centimetres (2.0 ft). [4] Leaves are alternately arranged and clasp the stem, which itself contains a salty- astringent liquid. The yellow inflorescences are typically composed of a prominent centre of 40–100 disc florets surrounded by 20–30 narrow, pistillate ray florets. When setting seed the flower heads reflex. [5]
Common fleabane is the main food plant for the fleabane tortoise beetle ( Cassida murraea), [6] and for four micromoths, Apodia bifractella, [7] Ptocheuusa paupella, [8] dusky plume ( Oidaematophorus lithodactyla) [9] and Digitivalva pulicariae. [10]
Fleabane's common name comes from its former use as an incense to drive away insects. [5] Other past uses include treatments for dysentery and unspecified ocular maladies. [3]
Media related to
Pulicaria dysenterica at Wikimedia Commons