Common Name: MIGNONETTE FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub. Leaf: simple, alternate; stipules small, tooth- or gland-like; blade entire to deeply lobed. Inflorescence: raceme or spike, generally terminal. Flower: generally bisexual, small, asymmetric, 1 per bract; sepals 2--8; petals 0--8; disk occasionally present; stamens 3--50+, generally on disk, anthers 2-chambered; carpels 2--8, generally fused, generally open distally, ovary superior, sessile or short-stalked, generally 1-chambered, stigmas beak-like. Fruit: capsule, gaping at top, or berry. Seed: few to many, reniform. Genera In Family: 6 genera, +- 85 species: northern and eastern hemispheres, especially Mediterranean. eFlora Treatment Author: Thomas F. Daniel Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: MIGNONETTE Habit: Annual to perennial herb. Leaf: petioled or not; blade entire to deeply lobed. Flower: sepals 4--8, margins generally white; petals 4--6[8], base generally dilated, limb generally lobed; stamens 10--25[40], on prominent disk; stigmas 3--5. Fruit: capsule. Etymology: (Latin: to calm, from supposed sedative property)
Reseda alba L.
NATURALIZED Habit: Perennial herb, glabrous. Stem: < 10 dm. Leaf: pinnately lobed; lobes 4--11 per side. Inflorescence: bracts 3.5--9 mm, persistent in fruit; pedicel 2--8 mm. Flower: sepals 5--6; petals 5--6, 4.5--6 mm, alike, +- equally 3-lobed, +- white; stamens 11--13, filaments persistent. Fruit: erect, 4-parted. Seed: 1.2--1.3 mm, rough. Chromosomes: 2n=20,40. Ecology: Disturbed areas, fields, roadsides; Elevation: < 100 m. Bioregional Distribution: CW, SW (gen coastal); Distribution Outside California: native to Mediterranean. Flowering Time: May--Nov Jepson eFlora Author: Thomas F. Daniel Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Reseda Next taxon: Reseda lutea
Citation for this treatment: Thomas F. Daniel 2012, Reseda alba, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=41028, accessed on April 25, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 25, 2024.
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CW, SW (gen coastal)
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