Navigation         Search for a plant: 
 
 

Vorige Art/previous species (Left arrowball from Animation City 1991)     Hedypnois rhagadioloides  (L.) F.W.SCHMIDT     Nächste Art/next species (Right arrowball from Animation City 1991)
 

Fam.: Asteraceae / Composite Fam.  

Synon.:  Hedypnois cretica  (L.) WILLD.,  Hedypnois polymorpha  DC.

Genus:  Hedypnois  SCOP.
 

Authors:
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
   F.W.SCHMIDT:  Franz Willibald Schmidt (1764 - 1796), botanist from Prague (Bohemia)
   WILLD.:  Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765 - 1812), German botanist
   DC.:  Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle (1778 - 1841), Swiss botanist
   SCOP.:  Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723 - 1788), Tyrolian physician and naturalist
 

Etymology:
   Hedypnois:   sweet sleep
   rhagadioloides:   Rhagadiolus-like
   cretica:   from Crete
   polymorpha:   polymorphic
 

The Flora Europaea sees this plant as one species whose variability can't be separated geographically into species or subspecies. But the French internet sites TelaBotanica and PhotoFlora are managing the two species Hedypnois cretica (procumbent plants) and Hedypnois rhagadioloides (higher, ususaly erectly growing plants) separately, which both occur in Southern France.

 

Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F Toreilles 24.6.2008
Fig. 1:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
F Toreilles 24.6.2008
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F Toreilles 24.6.2008
Fig. 2:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
F Toreilles 24.6.2008
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F Sète 6.6.2009
Fig. 3:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
F Sète 6.6.2009
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Fig. 4:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Fig. 5:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Fig. 6:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Fig. 7:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Fig. 8:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed (young plant)
F St. Martin-de-Crau 17.3.2024
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Majorca Andratx 26.4.2011
Fig. 9:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Majorca, Andratx 26.4.2011
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Majorca Lluc 24.4.2011
Fig. 10:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Majorca, Lluc 24.4.2011
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Majorca Lluc 24.4.2011
Fig. 11:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Majorca, Lluc 24.4.2011
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Majorca Lluc 24.4.2011
Fig. 12:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Majorca, Lluc 24.4.2011
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Majorca Lluc 24.4.2011
Fig. 13:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Majorca, Lluc 24.4.2011
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Samos Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Fig. 14:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Samos, Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Samos Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Fig. 15:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Samos, Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Samos Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Fig. 16:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Samos, Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Samos Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Fig. 17:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Samos, Pythagorio 13.4.2017
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Samos Psili Ammos 16.4.2017
Fig. 18:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Samos, Psili Ammos 16.4.2017
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Samos Psili Ammos 16.4.2017
Fig. 19:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Samos, Psili Ammos 16.4.2017
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Samos Psili Ammos 16.4.2017
Fig. 20:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed
Samos, Psili Ammos 16.4.2017
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, D Botan. Gar.  Universit.  Mainz 13.9.2008
Fig. 21:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed (cultiv.)
D Botan. Gar. Universit. Mainz 13.9.2008
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Rhodos Kamiros 22.3.2023
Fig. 22:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed (subsp. tubaeformis (TEN.) HAYEK)
Rhodos, Kamiros 22.3.2023
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Rhodos Kamiros 22.3.2023
Fig. 23:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed (subsp. tubaeformis (TEN.) HAYEK)
Rhodos, Kamiros 22.3.2023
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Rhodos Kamiros 22.3.2023
Fig. 24:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed (subsp. tubaeformis (TEN.) HAYEK)
Rhodos, Kamiros 22.3.2023
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Rhodos Kamiros 22.3.2023
Fig. 25:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed (subsp. tubaeformis (TEN.) HAYEK)
Rhodos, Kamiros 22.3.2023
Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed, Rhodos Kamiros 22.3.2023
Fig. 26:  Hedypnois rhagadioloides / Cretan Weed (subsp. tubaeformis (TEN.) HAYEK)
Rhodos, Kamiros 22.3.2023

 


To top
 
Start page
 
Contents
 
Orchids
 
Other Plants
 
Plants acc. to Families
 
.. Relationship:
 
APG
 
trad.
 
.. Scientific Names
 
.. German Names
 
.. English Names
 
.. Bloom Colors
 
.. Flower Anatomy
 
.. Leaf Form
 
.. Regions
 
.. Photo Month
 
.. Fruits + Seed
 
.. Roots + Bulbs
 
Pest Infestation + Deformations
 
Trees
 
Bushes
 
Water Plants
 
Climbers + Twiners
 
Useful Pl.
 
Ornamental Pl.
 
Color Var.
 
Multiple Criteria
 
Biotopes + Groups
 
Botan.Links
 

Copyright: Use of the images and texts only with the author's written permission.