Specularia perfoliata

Specularia perfoliata

  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Specularia perfoliata
  • Flower name
    Specularia perfoliata
  • Scientific name
    Specularia perfoliata
  • Aliasダンダンギキョウ, 桔梗草, common venus' looking-glass
  • Place of originNorth American
  • Place of floweringFields and footpaths
  • Flowering seasonMay

What is Specularia perfoliata

Specularia perfoliata (scientific name:Specularia perfoliata) is annual grass naturalized plants from North America of the genus Triodanis. It makes purple 5 petaled flowers bloom on the roadside. It grows each other to the stem which round leaves stood straight, and the leaves sit on a stem. It takes out flower stalks from an axil to early summer from spring. Flowers have opening flowers and cleistogamic flowers, and only opening flowers bloom. After stamens serve pollen at the opening flower arrangements earlier, and insects carried it away with protandrous plants, the capital of the pistil open and avoid selfing. Time passes, and a hole opens slowly, and a seed comes to run down the fruit growing after flower a ripe purpose.

Common name: Specularia perfoliata, scientific name:Specularia perfoliata, origin: North America, environment: grasslands, roadside, plant height: 20-30 cm, stem: upright, leaves sessile, stem, leaf shape: round, leaf: shallow serrations, annual grass, flower color: purple, flowering period: may, flower diameter: 1.5-2 cm, 5 petaled flower petal-type: single


  • Order
    Asterales
  • Family
    Campanulaceae
  • Genus
    Specularia
  • Species
    S. perfoliata
  • Type of flower
    Left-right symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Spikelet inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    High cup-shaped
  • Leaf type
    Round
  • Edge of the leaf
    Serrated
  • Life typeannual naturalized plant grass.
  • Flower colorsPurple Pink
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height20.0 ~ 30.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower1.5 ~ 2.0 cm

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