Family | MENYANTHACEAE |
Genus species | Menyanthes trifoliata L. |
Synonyms | Menyanthes americana Sweet |
Menyanthes latifolia Raf. | |
Menyanthes paradoxa Fr. | |
Habitat | bogs, marshes |
Description | petioles at base vaginate-dilate, leaves obovate oblong, obtuse, flowers in long pedunculate, axillary raceme, corolla lobes triangular, ciliate, inside long barbate |
Size | 20-30cm |
Color | pink |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | - |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | very moist to boggy, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, sandy soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible cuttings in late spring and late summer |
Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Denmark , Finland , Fřroyar , Great Britain , Iceland , Ireland , Norway , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Hungary , Netherlands , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (Corse , France , Portugal , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Bulgaria , Greece , Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Belarus , Baltic States , Central European Russia , North European Russia , South European Russia , Northwest European Russia , Ukraine ) Africa Northern Africa (Morocco ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) Western Asia (Turkey ) Eastern Asia (Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Greenland ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado ) Northeastern U.S.A. (Vermont ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | MENYANTHACEAE
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