PIMPINELLA PEREGRINA

Family and Genus:- See- UMBELLIFERAE

Common Names:- Southern burnet-saxifrage

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Pimpinella. A medieval name of uncertain meaning.

Peregrina (L) Strange, foreign, exotic.

General description:- Finely pubescent biennial

Stem:-

1) 50-100 cm.

Leaves:-

1) Lowest, simple, cordate, serrate;

a) next, pinnate, segments 5-9, suborbicular, more or less cordate at the base,

crenate.

2) Upper cauline, 2-pinnate, with linear, often recurved lobes.

Flowers:-

1) Rays, 8-50, filiform, setulose.

2) Bracts and bracteoles, absent.

Fruit:-

1) c. 2 mm, ovoid, with patent hairs.

Key features:-

1) Ovary and fruit ± hairy.

2) Stock, slender, without fibres or scale-like leaf-bases.

3) Rays, usually more than 15.

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Habitat:- Open woodland, scrub, rocky and gravelly road embankments, fallow

fields. 0-1250 m.

Distribution:- Throughout Greece. - Widespread in S Europe, from Spain eastwards

Cyrenaica, Anatolia and Syria, extending to C Asia. Fairly widespread and

scattered on Crete.

Flowering time:- End of May to mid-Aug.

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