Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Curry Plant, Eternal Flower, Goldilocks, Immortelle, Shrubby Everlasting
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
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May. • Flower Color: yellow
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 36-48" tall.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,110 meters (0 to 10,203 feet).[2]
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 36-48" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
()
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
()
- Tribe:
Gnaphalieae
()
- Subtribe:
Gnaphaliinae
()
- Genus:
Helichrysum
()
- P. Miller, 1754, nom. cons., orth. cons.
- [Greek helios, sun, and chrysos, gold, and helichrysos, Greek name for a local species of Asteraceae]
- Specific epithet:
stoechas
- (L.) Moench
- Botanical name: - Helichrysum stoechas (L.) Moench
- Specific epithet:
stoechas
- (L.) Moench
- Genus:
Helichrysum
(
- Subtribe:
Gnaphaliinae
(
- Tribe:
Gnaphalieae
(
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Data Providers: African Flowering Plants
Database
, Tropicos,
Euro+Med. GCC LSID: urn
:lsid:compositae.org:names:79C2C0C8-322C-463D-AF7F-9ACA36FB2BC0
Last scrutiny: 18-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
- Memoirs of the American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, American Entomological Society, 1916- url p. 105.
- Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 10 1902 Durham, N.C.: Published for the Club by the Seeman Printery, 1889- url p. 261.
- Plant sociology; the study of plant communities; authorized English translation of Pflanzensoziologie, by Dr. J. Braun-Blanquet. Translated, revised and edited by George D. Fuller and Henry S. Conard. New York and London, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1932. url p. 190, p. 420.
Notes
Contributors
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 01, 2008:
- European Environment Agency, EUNIS
- GBIF-Spain, BDBCV BioBlitz in Penyagolosa
- GBIF-Spain, Botánica, Universidad de León: LEB-Cormo
- GBIF-Spain, Dirección General de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación de la Junta de Extremadura(DGIDTI): HSS
- GBIF-Spain, Dpto de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal
- .Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de Córdoba
- GBIF-Spain, Herbario Universidad de Málaga: MGC-Cormófitos
- GBIF-Spain, Hortus Botanicus Sollerensis Herbarium
- GBIF-Spain, Institut Botanic de Barcelona, BC
- GBIF-Spain, Jardín Botánico de Córdoba: Herbarium COA
- GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
- , Vascular Plant Herbarium
- GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Almería, HUAL
- GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen
- SysTax, SysTax
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Lund Botanical Museum
- UK National Biodiversity Network, Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database
- University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1672447
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-8055
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2974753
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:213382-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 744076
Footnotes
- 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]
- Mean = 368.080 meters (1,207.612 feet), Standard Deviation = 488.160 based on 13,671 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
