Tolpis
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Tolpis (name unexplained). Compositae. Herbs, annual and perennial, allied to Crepis, with showy yellow heads, suitable for the flower-garden or border, but apparently not offered in this country; species about 15, in the Medit. region, and the Canaries and Azores. St. rarely somewhat woody: lvs. mostly radical or on lower part of st., entire, dentate or pinnatifid, the upper ones few and narrow: heads homogamous, ligulate, the involucre campanulate with narrow bracts in several series; receptacle naked or pitted: achene subterete, 6-8-ribbed, the pappus of 8-10 very slender setae. T. barbata, Gaertn. (Crepis barbata, Linn.), from S. Eu., is an erect branched annual with attractive yellow heads, the outer scales of involucre subulate: lvs. lanceolate, dentate, the upper ones near the fl.-heads long-subulate: blooms from midsummer till frost. B.M.35. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963