Maritime Panicaut

The maritime panicaut ( Eryngium maritimum ) is a herbaceous Plante of the family of the Apiacées.

Description

It is a Hardy perennial green-bluish with the sheets coriaces, thorny, with the blue flowers in flowerheads rounded. One meets it in sometimes important spots in the dunes and zones of rollers of the littoral.

Like the pastoral Panicaut, its roots can be the hosts of the Pleurote of the panicaut.

Characteristics

reproductive bodies:

Standard of inflorescence: ombelle of ombellules
distribution of the sexes: androdioïque
Standard of pollination: entomogame
Period of flowering: June at September

seed:

Standard of fruit: Akène
Mode of dissemination: épizoochore

Habitat and distribution:

standard Habitat: thermophilous long-lived dunes submaritimes
Surface of distribution: the Mediterranean-Atlantic

given according to: Julve, pH., 1998 FF. - Baseflor. Botanical, ecological and chorologic index of the flora of France. Version: April 23rd, 2004. Maintenant that my time decrease like a torch That my tasks are finished; Now that here that I touch with the tomb By mournings and the years, (...) And I think, listening to groan the bitter wind, And the wave with the insuperable folds; The summer laughs, and one sees on the edge of the sea To flower the blue thistle of the sables.

Victor Hugo ( Words on the dune )

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