Scorzoneroides autumnalis

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Scorzoneroides autumnalis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Scorzoneroides
Species:
S. autumnalis
Binomial name
Scorzoneroides autumnalis
Synonyms [1]

Leontodon autumnalisL.

Scorzoneroides autumnalis, commonly called autumn hawkbit, [2] is a perennial plant species, widespread in its native range in Eurasia (from Europe east to western Siberia), [3] and introduced in North America. [4]

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The plant is sometimes called fall dandelion, because it is very similar to the common dandelion (one of the main differences being a branched stem with several capitula [5] ), but "yellow fields", covered by this plant appear much later than dandelions, towards the autumn in the Eastern Europe. In the Latin synonym of the plant name, Leontodon autumnalis, [6] "leontodon" means "lion's tooth", the same as "dandelion".

Description

Scorzoneroides autumnalis is a perennial herb growing to 35 cm high usually with branched stems and several flower-heads each about 30 mm across. The florets are all ligulate and bright yellow. The leaves are all basal and linear-oblong. [6]

Reproduction

Flowers in June to October producing achenes. [6]

Habitat

Frequent in damp grassland [6] and meadows. [7]

Ecology

The fly Tephritis leontodontis is known to attack the capitula of this plant. [8]

Distribution

Abundant in Ireland and Great Britain. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Werner Greuter; Walter Gutermann & Salvador Talavera (2006). "A preliminary conspectus of Scorzoneroides (Compositae, Cichorieae) with validation of the required new names" (PDF). Willdenowia . 36 (2): 689–692. doi:10.3372/wi.36.36204. ISSN   0511-9618. S2CID   85657923. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-06.
  2. ↑ "Scorzoneroides autumnalis". Germplasm Resources Information Network . Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Rosabelle Samuel; Walter Gutermann; Tod F. Stuessy; Claudete F. Ruas; Hans-Walter Lack; Karin Tremetsberger; Salvador Talavera; Barbara Hermanowski & Friedrich Ehrendorfer (2006). "Molecular phylogenetics reveals Leontodon (Asteraceae, Lactuceae) to be diphyletic". American Journal of Botany . 93 (8): 1193–1205. doi: 10.3732/ajb.93.8.1193 . PMID   21642184.
  4. ↑ 1. Leontodon autumnalis Linnaeus, Flora of North America , accessed March 1, 2010
  5. ↑ Autumn Hawkbit
  6. 1 2 3 4 Parnell, J. and Curtis, T, 2012 Webb's An Irish Flora. Cork University Press. ISBN   978-185918-4783
  7. 1 2 Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. 1968 Excursion Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press ISBN   0-521-04656-4
  8. ↑ Ian M. White (1988). Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidea). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 10/5a. Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–134. ISBN   978-0-901546-68-5.
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