Biology:Jovibarba heuffelii

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Short description: Species of succulent

Jovibarba heuffelii
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Jovibarba heuffelii, at a botanical garden in Wroclaw, Poland
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Jovibarba
Species:
J. heuffelii
Binomial name
Jovibarba heuffelii
(Schott) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Synonyms[1]
  • Sempervivum heuffelii Schott

Jovibarba heuffelii, common name hen-and-chickens, as a plant species native to the Balkans and to the Carpathians in Europe but reportedly naturalized in Wisconsin and probably in other parts of North America. It grows on rocky outcrops.[2]

Jovibarba heuffelii is a perennial herb forming basal rosettes of succulent leaves that are ciliate along the margins. Flowering stalks are erect, succulent, up to 20 cm (8 inches) tall, bearing a cyme of up to 40 white to yellowish flowers. Each flower is up to 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter, with 6-7 fringed petals. Each plant is semelparous, meaning that it flowers only once, dying after its fruits mature.[2][3][4]

Some botanists treat the genus Jovibarba as part of the genus Sempervivum, but the Flora of North America separates it into its own genus.[2]

References

  1. Tropicos
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Flora of North America v 8 p 170.
  3. Löve, Áskell, & Löve, Doris Benta Maria. Botaniska Notiser 114(1): 39. 1961.
  4. SMG Succulents

Wikidata ☰ Q16983830 entry