Sarcocapnos
Encyclopedia
Sarcocapnos is a genus of at least 6 species of somewhat fleshy, cushion-forming annual
to perennial
plants
, native to cliffs in the French
Pyrenees
, Spain
, and north Africa
.
(but unlikeDicentra
), the flowers are zygomorphic, that is, they have bilateral symmetry.
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed...
to perennial
Perennial plant
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...
plants
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
, native to cliffs in the French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Pyrenees
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, and north Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
.
Description
As in the genus CorydalisCorydalis
Corydalis is a genus of about 470 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the fumewort family , native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and the high mountains of tropical eastern Africa...
(but unlikeDicentra
Dicentra
Dicentra is a genus of 8 species of perennial herbaceous plants in the fumitory family, many with heart-shaped flowers, native to eastern Asia and North America.-Description:...
), the flowers are zygomorphic, that is, they have bilateral symmetry.
Species
There are at least 6 species:- Sarcocapnos baetica (Boiss. & Reut.) Nyman
- Sarcocapnos crassifolia (Desf.) DC.
- Sarcocapnos enneaphylla (L.) DC.
- Sarcocapnos integrifolia (Boiss.) Cuatrec.
- Sarcocapnos pulcherrima C. Morales & Romero García
- Sarcocapnos saetabensis Mateo & Figuerola
External links
- Botany Photo of the Day — University of British Columbia Botanical GardenUBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant ResearchUBC Botanical Garden, at the University of British Columbia, was established in 1916 under the directorship of John Davidson, British Columbia's first provincial botanist. It is the oldest botanical garden at a university in Canada....
- photos on Flickr