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Published In: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 14: 496. 1965. (Wiss. Z. Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Math.-Naturwiss. Reihe) Name publication detail
 

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Nomenclature :

Vaccaria hispanica (Mill.) Rauschert, Wiss. Z. Martin Luther Univ., Halle-Wittenberg, Math.-Naturwiss. 14: 496 (1965). Saponaria pyramidata Medik., Phil. Bot. 1: 96 (1789). V. parviflora Moench, Meth. 63 (1794). V. pyramidata Medik., Phil. Bot. 1: 96 (1789). V. segetalis (Neck.) Garcke ex Aschers., Fl. Prov. Brandenb. 1: 84 (1864). Saponaria vaccaria L., Sp. Pl. 409 (1753); Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1: 525 (1867). [Type: Described from material of Spanish origin cultivated in England (?)]. [Plate 140]

Common name :

Cow Basil, Cow Cocklet; סבּונית השדה.

Area distribution :

Mainly Mediterranean, extending into the Irano-Turanian and Euro-Siberian regions; also introduced elsewhere (N. America, Australia, New Zealand).    

Notes :

One of the most characteristic weeds of winter crops.

Two seeds of this weedy species were found at Early Iron Age Shiloh (Samaria).

Sometimes grown as an ornamental plant. Roots of Vaccaria (and Saponaria officinalis) contain saponine hence used as detergents. Reputed as a medicinal herb with depurative and other healing qualities.


 

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Annual, glabrous, glaucous, 15-60 cm. Stems erect, branched in upper part. Leaves 5-10 x 0.5-4 (-5) cm., radical oblong or lanceolate, tapering at base, upper ovate, clasping or connate at base. Inflorescences paniculate, of loose, spreading dichasial branches. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, green to almost membranous, 1-nerved. Pedicels mostly as long as or longer than calyx. Calyx 1-1.7 cm., oblong to spindle-shaped, ovoid in fruit, glabrous, whitish-green between the 5 prominent ribs; teeth short, ovate-triangular or lanceolate, scarious at margin and often at apex. Petals 1.5-2.2 cm., pink ; limb short, obovate, entire or irregularly dentate or notched; claw long, exserted or not. Styles 2. Capsule 0.7-1 cm., ovoid or subglobular, with very prominent ribs extending into wings. Seeds about 2 mm. in diam., subglobular, black, finely tuberculate. Fl. February-May.

 

 
 
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