Common Names
Common Names in English:
Cowslip
Description
Family Liliaceae
Herbs perennial
, with a rhizome, bulb, or corm, rarely shrubby or treelike. Leaves basal and/or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled
, parallel or rarely reticulate
veined. Inflorescence a raceme
, panicle, spike, umbel, reduced panicle, or other, or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual
, rarely unisexual
, actinomorphic
, rarely zygomorphic; bracts present or absent; bracteoles present or absent. Perianth usually corollalike, 6-merous, rarely 4- or 8-merous, in 2 whorls; segments free
(tepals) or united
. Stamens 6, rarely 3, 4, or 8, inserted
opposite perianth segments; filaments
free or adnate
to perianth, rarely connate
into a corona
; anthers
usually 2-loculed, basifixed
or dorsifixed
and versatile, introrse
, latrorse
, or extrorse
, dehiscing usually by vertical
slits. Carpels usually connate for most or all of their length, rarely only at base
; ovary superior, rarely semi-inferior, 3-loculed, rarely 2- or 4-loculed, with axile
placentae, or rarely 1-loculed with a parietal
placenta; ovules usually anatropous
. Nectaries septal, perigonal, or absent. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds with abundant endosperm and small embryo.
About 250 genera and 3500 species: worldwide, especially in temperate
and subtropical
regions; 57 genera (three endemic, two introduced
) and 726 species (379 endemic, 11 introduced) in China.Xinqi Chen, Prof. Song-Yun Liang, Jie-mei Xu, David E. Boufford, Michael G. Gilbert, Rudolf V. Kamelin, Shoichi Kawano, Tetsuo Koyama, Elena V. Mordak, Junko Noguchi, Victor G. Soukup, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kamilla G. Tamanian, Minoru N. Tamura & Nicholas J. Turland "Liliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 73. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Physical Description
Flowers: Flower Color: blue-violet, lavender, light blue, purple, violet
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 6-12" tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 3-6" apart.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Scopoli, 1760
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lilianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Liliales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Family:
Liliaceae
()
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Lily Family
- Genus:
Lachenalia
()
- Cultivar:
Rupert
- Botanical name: - Lachenalia 'Rupert'
- Cultivar:
Rupert
- Genus:
Lachenalia
(
- Family:
Liliaceae
(
- Order:
Liliales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lachenalia
There are approximately 240 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
L. comesi · L. nelsonii · L. regeliana · L. 'Fransie' · L. 'Indian Prince' · L. 'Lemon Ripple' · L. 'Namakwa' · L. 'Nova' · L. 'Robekkie' · L. 'Robijn' · L. 'Rolina' · L. 'Romaud' (Cape Cowslip) · L. 'Romelia' · L. 'Ronina' (Wild Hyacinth) · L. 'Rosabeth' (Wild Hyacinth) · L. 'Rupert' (Cowslip) · L. 'Violet Queen' · L. alba · L. albida · L. algoensis · L. aloides (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides 'Balfour's' · L. aloides 'Nelsonii' · L. aloides 'Pearsonii' (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides (L.f.) Engl. var. aloides · L. aloides var. aurea (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides var. luteola · L. aloides var. quadricolor (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides var. vanzyliae · L. aloides var. vanzyliae × orchioides var. glaucina · L. aloides-Hybride 'Nelsonii' · L. aloides-Hybride 'Quadricolor' · L. ameliae · L. angelica · L. anguinea · L. angustifolia · L. arbuthnotiae · L. attenuata · L. aurea · L. aurioliae · L. bachmanii · L. bachmannii · L. barkeriana · L. bicolor · L. bifolia · L. bolusii · L. botryoides · L. bowieana · L. bowkeri · L. brevipes · L. buchubergensis · L. bulbifera (Lachenalia) · L. bulbifera 'George' · L. bulbifera 'Mandarin' · L. bulbifera pink · L. cami · L. campanulata · L. capensis · L. carnosa · L. cernua · L. comptonii · L. concordiana · L. congesta · L. contaminata (Wild Hyacinth) · L. convallariodora · L. convallarioides · L. cooperi · L. corymbosa · L. dasybotrya · L. declinata · L. dehoopensis · L. doleritica · L. duncanii · L. elegans · L. elegans var. flava · L. elegans var. membranacea · L. elegans var. suaveolens · L. elegans W.F.Barker var. flava W.F.Barker · L. ensifolia · L. esterhuysenae · L. fistulosa · L. flava · L. fragrans · L. framesii · L. giessii · L. gillettii · L. glaucina · L. glaucina 'Wrangle Blue' · L. glaucophylla · L. graminifolia · L. haarlemensis · L. hermionae · L. hirta · L. hirta var. exserta · L. hyacinthoides · L. hybrid Lac. 213 · L. inconspicua · L. isopetala · L. juncifolia · L. juncifolia var. campanulata
Bibliography
- Wang Fa-tsuan & Tang Tsin, eds. 1978; 1980. Liliaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 15: 1--280; 14: 1--308.
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Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1017521
