홍화민들레 Pilosella aurantiaca

 

 

학명: Pilosella aurantiaca (L.) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip.

학명 이명: Hieracium aurantiacum L.

분류: 국화과(Asteraceae)

국내유통명: 홍화민들레

일어명: コウリンタンポポ（紅輪蒲公英)

 

 

사진: 2018.05.30  충남 해미

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pilosella aurantiaca (fox-and-cubs, orange hawk bit, devil's paintbrush, grim-the-collier) is a perennial flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe, where it is protected in several regions.

 

Description

 

It is a low-growing plant with shallow fibrous roots and a basal rosette of elliptical to lanceolate leaves 5–20 cm long and 1–3 cm broad. All parts of the plant exude a milky juice. The flowering stem is usually leafless or with just one or two small leaves. The stem and leaves are covered with short stiff hairs (trichomes), usually blackish in color. The stems may reach a height of 60 cm and have 2–25 capitula (flowerheads), each 1–2½ cm diameter, bundled together at the end of short pedicels. The flowers are orange, almost red, which is virtually invisible to bees, yet they also reflect ultraviolet light, increasing their conspicuousness to pollinators. The flowers are visited by various insects, including many species of bees, butterflies, pollinating flies. The flowers themselves come in a range of colors from a deep rust-orange to a pure yellow and often show striking gradients of color.

The plant propagates through its wind-dispersed seeds, and also vegetatively by stolons and shallow rhizomes.

P. aurantiaca is widely grown as an ornamental plant in gardens for its very decorative flowers. often used in wildflower gardens due to its bright orange flowers being highly attractive to a wide array of pollinators. Although occasionally considered a weed due to their ability to colonize select areas, it is unwise to remove them, even in non-native settings, because this plant plays such a vital role at sustaining pollinator populations in meadow ecosystems.

 

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