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Overview
Distribution
National Distribution
Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Ecology
Associations
Foodplant / pathogen
Armillaria mellea s.l. infects and damages Scabiosa caucasica
Foodplant / parasite
Podosphaera dipsacacearum parasitises Scabiosa caucasica
Foodplant / spot causer
hypophyllous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph of Ramularia bosniaca causes spots on live leaf of Scabiosa caucasica
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Conservation
Conservation Status
NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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National NatureServe Conservation Status
Canada
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Scabiosa caucasica
Scabiosa caucasica is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipsacaceae, native to the Caucasus, north eastern Turkey, and northern Iran. Growing to 60 cm (24 in) tall and broad, it is a clump-forming perennial with divided leaves. Pincushion-shaped buds, borne on erect stems, open to pale blue or lavender flower heads, 8 cm (3 in) in diameter, from late summer through to autumn.[1]
The plant is highly attractive to bees and other pollinating insects.[2]
Cultivars
Numerous cultivars have been developed for garden use, in shades of red, purple, pink, blue and white. The cultivars 'Clive Greaves'[3] and 'Miss Willmott'[4] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Other cultivars include:-
- 'Blue Perfection' (blue flower)
- 'Bressingham White' (white flower)
- 'Claire Greaves' (lavender blue flower)
- 'Compliment' (large blue flower)
- 'Fama' (large lavender blue flower)
- 'Floral Queen' (light blue flower)
- 'Loddon White' (white flower)
- 'Moonbeam Blue' (dark blue flower)
- 'Mrs Isaac House' (creamy white flower)
- 'Perfecta' (dark lavender blue flower)
- 'Perfecta Alba Blanc' (white flower)
- 'Staefa' (blue flower)
References
- Botanica, Einjährige und mehrjährige Pflanzen, Über 2000 Pflanzenporträts, ISBN 978-3-8331-4469-1, paĝe 790 (German)
- ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3349645/How-to-grow-Scabiosa-caucasica.html
- ^ http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1799
- ^ http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1800
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