Pastoral Panicaut
The pastoral panicaut ( Eryngium campestre ) is a herbaceous Plante long-lived of the family of the Apiaceae .
Description
The common panicaut (pastoral) is a long-lived thorny plant, very widespread in Europe Western and central, in North Africa, with the the Middle East and in the the Caucasus. It affectionate uncultivated fields, edges of the ways, places rather dry, rather in plain.High from 50 to 60 cm, it has sheets coriaces, stiff, cut out and toothed. The stem is drawn up and very ramified. The inflorescences are flowerheads rounded, surrounded by an involucre blanchâtre to 5 to 6 bractées. The root, persistent, is very long (up to 5 m length) and emits rejections.
This plant, which bears many vernacular names, thistle-Roland, thistle-travelling, thistle with hundred heads, thistle of ass…, is rather harmful when it is in the pastures and that it mixes with fodder.
The root is considered diuretic and apéritive.
On its roots, commes on those of Eryngium maritimum , pushes sometimes a Champignon which is pledged for him, the Pleurote of the panicaut ( pleurotus eryngii )
Characteristics
- reproductive bodies:
- Standard of inflorescence: ombelle of ombellules
- distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
- of pollination: entomogame, autogame
- Period of flowering: July at September
- seed:
- Standard of fruit: Akène
- Mode of dissemination: épizoochore
- Habitat and distribution:
- standard Habitat: basophilic lawns médioeuropéennes
- Surface of distribution: eurasiatique
External bonds
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