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Thesium ebracteatum

Thesium ebracteatum
Photo: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0

Thesium ebracteatum is a small, wild perennial herb from northern central and eastern Europe to western Siberia, a root hemiparasite that draws water and nutrients from neighboring plants' roots. It is not a garden or houseplant and is rarely cultivated.

Family
Thesiaceae (Thesi family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
How easy
Hard
Native range
NC. & E. Europe to W. Siberia
Climate
temperate

About

Thesium ebracteatum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Santalaceae.

Its native range is Northern Central and Eastern Europe to Western Siberia.

Other Thesium plants

Austral Toadflax · Thesium goetzeanum · Bastard toadflax · Low Bastard Toadflax · Thesium lacinulatum · Flaxleaf · Meadow Bastard Toadflax · Bastard-toadflax

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thesium ebracteatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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