Fritillaire guinea fowl

The fritillaire guinea fowl ( Fritillaria meleagris ) is a long-lived herbaceous plant of the family of the Liliaceae.

Description

It measures between 20 and 40 centimetres in height. It has a globulous bulb which contains Alcaloïde S poisonous. Its stem is drawn up. The sheets, three to five, are green-gray, linear, alternate, lancéolées and narrow. The flowers solitary (or grouped by two or three) are pink dark, mixed in checkerwork crimson and blanchâtre (very seldom white shandies of greenish). The fruit is a subspheric capsule.

It is indicating of moist environment.

It flowers between March and May at an altitude ranging between 0 and 800 meters.

Characteristics

reproductive bodies

standard of inflorescence: final solitary flower
distribution of the sexes: standard hermaphrodite
of pollination: entomogame, autogame
period of flowering: April at May

standard seed

of fruit: capsule
mode of dissemination: barochore

habitat and standard distribution

habitat: meadows médioeuropéennes, hygrophile of average topographic level, psychrophilous
surface of distribution: Of west in is from England as far as Russia, and of north in the south from Poland until dand the North of Italy and ex-Yugoslavia. In the south-west of the Alps one meets the subspecies burnatii .

Source: Julve, pH., 1998 FF. - Baseflor. Botanical, ecological and chorologic index of the flora of France. Version: April 23rd, 2004.

This species profits from a decree of protection in several countries, like in several departments of France. Become very rare, this plant is absolutely prohibited of gathering. One can however find in the horticulturists of the bulbs resulting from culture.

It is indigenous in the Netherlands, where it is also in strong regression and strictly protected. In the north of Europe it is naturalized that and there.

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