Helichrysum angustifolium

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Helichrysum

[Annuals , biennials, perennials ,] subshrubs , or shrubs (often aromatic ), mostly 20-80 cm; taprooted. Stems usually 1, usually erect , sometimes decumbent to procumbent (± woolly-tomentose, usually stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well) . Leaves cauline; alternate; petiolate [sessile]; blades ovate [spatulate to lanceolate or linear ], bases cuneate to truncate [usually clasping and/or decurrent], margins entire (sometimes revolute ), faces concolor [bicolor], usually gray to white and tomentose or sericeous [adaxial sometimes greenish and glabrescent ], sometimes stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well. Heads disciform or discoid , in glomerules in corymbiform arrays. Involucres campanulate , 4-8 mm. Phyllaries in 3-5[-7] series, whitish [stramineous , orange, reddish, or pinkish] (opaque or hyaline , usually shiny; stereomes green, usually sessile-glandular distally) . Receptacles flat, glabrous , epaleate. Peripheral (pistillate ) florets 0 or 1-2 (fewer than bisexual ) : corollas yellowish. Inner (bisexual) florets 3-30[-50+]; corollas usually yellowish. Cypselae ± columnar , faces usually smooth , sometimes papillate (roughened by raised, imbricate tips of epidermal cells ), sometimes with 4-6 longitudinal ridges , glabrous [± strigose or myxogenic, papilliform hairs ]; pappi readily falling, of 12-20 distinct or loosely coherent basally, barbellate [subplumose] bristles in 1 series. x = 7.

Species about 600: introduced ; mostly Old World, especially s Africa and Madagascar.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants Database , New Zealand Plant Name Database, LCR Editor, Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Euro+Med. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:0797CD4B-54A1-4408-BD27-2E9645F132CB

Last scrutiny: 24-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Helichrysum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 47 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

H. adenophorum (Branched Everlasting) · H. angustifolium (Curry Plant) · H. angustifolium 'Nana' (Curry Plant) · H. arenarium (Everlasting Flower) · H. argyrophyllum (Golden Guinea Flower) · H. bellidioides (New Zealand Strawflower) · H. bracteatum (Bracted Strawflower) · H. bracteatum 'Pink Glow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Salsa' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Silvery Rose' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Bronze' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Flame' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Golden Beauty' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Golden Yellow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Pink' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze White' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Yellow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Tall Double Mix' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Victorian Blush' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Wallaby Flame' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. elatum (Irontree) · H. foetidum (Stinking Ever-Lasting) · H. fontanesii (Everlasting) · H. formosissimum (Everlasting-Flower) · H. heldreichii (Helichrysum) · H. italicum italicum (Curry Plant) · H. leucopsideum (Satin Everlasting) · H. melitense (Maltese Everlasting) · H. milfordiae (Alpine Everlasting) · H. petiolare (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Lemon' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Licorice Splash' (Variegated Licorice Plant) · H. petiolare 'Limelight' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Petite' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Splash' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Variegata' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'White Licorice' (Helichrysum) · H. roseum 'Pierrot' (Crisp Everlasting) · H. rutidolepis (Pale Everlasting) · H. scorpioides (Button Everlasting) · H. stoechas (Curry Plant) · H. thianschanicum 'Icicle' (Helichrysum) · H. 'Dreamtime Jumbo White' (White Strawflower) · H. 'Dreamtime Jumbo Yellow' (Yellow Strawflower) · H. 'Ruby Cluster' (Straw Flower) · H. 'Silver Mist' (Dwarf Licorice Plant) · H. 'Sulphur Light' (Sulphur Light Perennial Strawflower)

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Further Reading

• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url , p. 318, p. 434.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 131, p. 456, p. 628.
• Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum / [by George F. Hampson] LondonPrinted by order of the Trustees1913 url p. 140.
• Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1898-19. url p. 140.
• Flora of the U.S.S.R. [Springfield, Va.: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; 1968- url p. 401.
• Flowering plants of the Riviera: a sescriptive account of 1800 of the more interesting species / by H. Stuart Thompson; with an introduction on Riviera vegetation by A. G. Tansley London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1914. url p. 133.
• Journal of the International Garden Club. New York, International garden club. url p. 449.
• Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1916- url p. 105.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 391.
• Rambles on the Riviera, New York, C. Scribner's sons; [etc., etc.]1906. url .
• Rambles on the Riviera, by Eduard Strasburger. Translated from the German by O. and B. Comerford Casey, with 87 coloured illustrations by Louise Reusch. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1906. url p. 434.
• Standardized plant names; a catalogue of approved scientific and common names of plants in American commerce. Salem, Mass., 1923. url p. 141.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , p. 121, p. 445.
• The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera, ed. in collaboration with well-known specialists. Stuttgart: Seitz'schen (Kernen), 1906- url p. 264.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 3592.
• The tineina of southern Europe. By H. T. Stainton. .. London, J. Van Voorst, 1869. url p. 119, p. 120.
• The tourist's flora: a descriptive catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian islands / London: Reeve and Benham, 1850. url p. 465.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 5 1896 London. url p. 172, p. 173, p. 476.
• Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. München: Die Staatssammlung, url p. 59.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10857429
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-7050
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 744029

Footnotes

1. Guy L. Nesom "Helichrysum". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 59, 384, 387, 425. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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