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Hymenonema laconicum

Hymenonema laconicum
Photo: Siga, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
S. Greece
Climate
subtropical

About

Hymenonema laconicum is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the Asteraceae family. It is small to average height, with a rosette of greyish pinnately segmented leaves, and little branching solid stems carrying one to three heads of orange or yolk yellow ray-flowers, with a purple anther tube, and scaly pappus. The species is an endemic of the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos, and flowers in May and June.

Where it grows

Hymenonema laconicum is limited to the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos, in particular the Mainalo, Parnon and Taygetos mountains and the surrounding lowlands. It grows at altitudes of 5–1,300 m (16–4,265 ft) in shrubland on stony soils, field margins and meadows.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hymenonema laconicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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