Jovibarba heuffelii
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| Jovibarba heuffelii, at a botanical garden in Wroclaw, Poland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Genus: | Jovibarba |
| Species: | J. heuffelii
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| Jovibarba heuffelii (Schott) Á. Löve & D. Löve
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Jovibarba heuffelii, common name hen-and-chickens, as a plant species native to the Balkans and to the Carpathians in Europe but reportedly naturalized in Wisconsin and probably in other parts of North America. It grows on rocky outcrops.[2]
Jovibarba heuffelii is a perennial herb forming basal rosettes of succulent leaves that are ciliate along the margins. Flowering stalks are erect, succulent, up to 20 cm (8 inches) tall, bearing a cyme of up to 40 white to yellowish flowers. Each flower is up to 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter, with 6-7 fringed petals. Each plant is semelparous, meaning that it flowers only once, dying after its fruits mature.[2][3][4]
Some botanists treat the genus Jovibarba as part of the genus Sempervivum, but the Flora of North America separates it into its own genus.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Tropicos
- ^ a b c Flora of North America v 8 p 170.
- ^ Löve, Áskell, & Löve, Doris Benta Maria. Botaniska Notiser 114(1): 39. 1961.
- ^ SMG Succulents
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