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Asphodelus aestivus
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Asphodelus aestivus, the summer asphodel, is a species of asphodel, a common Western Mediterranean geophyte with a short vertical rhizome and basal leaves. Its flowers are actinomorphic, pinkish-white, with six perianth segments, 14–19 mm long and six stamens of the same length, in two whorls. Its distribution is limited to the Western Mediterranean, mainly found in Portugal and Spain on the European mainland. There has been a lot of confusion over the nomenclature and taxonomy of the species, owing to its similarity to Asphodelus ramosus. It grows in dry grasslands, phrygana and on rocky or sandy ground.
- Family
- Asphodelaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Asphodelus aestivus
- Slug
- asphodelus-aestivus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Asphodelaceae
- Genus
- Asphodelus
- Species
- aestivus
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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