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Campanulaceae
Jasione montana L.
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Canada
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Sheep's bit scabious, Jasione montana, is a low-growing plant in the Campanulaceae family found in rocky places and upland regions of Europe and western Asia. Other common names include blue bonnets, blue buttons, blue daisy, iron flower, sheep's scabious and sheep's bit.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
This plant is found in the north temperate zone of Europe, west Asia and north Africa. It is a rock plant growing on heaths and moors at a high elevation in rocky districts, coastal cliffs, quarries and natural escarpments where the soil is thin.[1] It prefers acid soils and is absent from limestone regions. It is often found on coastal cliffs in association with thrift and kidney vetch and blooms from May to September.[2]
Description[edit]
Sheep's bit scabious is a low biennial or occasionally annual plant growing up to about one foot tall with suberect stems that branch near the base. The leaves are linear, lanceolate, narrow at the base, sinuate, stiffly hairy and forming a rosette. The small violet-blue flowers are in small heads. The bracts are smooth or hairy and the petals have narrow lobes. There are 5 oblong anthers which unite at the base forming a tube, a feature that differentiates this plant from true Scabious.[1]
The individual florets open successively. The anthers ripen first and later the styles elongate and the two-lobed stigmas are displayed. This make self-pollination less likely. There are nectaries in the upper part of the ovaries and many insects visit the flowers. Some fifty species of bees and wasps, thirty species of fly, thirty species of butterflies and moths and several beetles have been recorded as visiting the flowers.[1]
The flowers are visible under ultraviolet light and it is believed that this makes them attractive to pollinating insects. They do not show a traditional bull's-eye pattern to guide the insect but the ultraviolet reflectance of the petals is very high.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Harwood, A. R. British Wild Flowers In Their Natural Haunts Vol 5-6.
- ^ First Nature
- ^ Ultraviolet flowers
- Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / nest
female of Dufourea halictula provisions nest with pollen of Jasione montana
Plant / resting place / on
Haplothrips jasionis may be found on live Jasione montana
Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Meligethes subrugosus feeds on Jasione montana
Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Miarus micros feeds on Jasione montana
Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Napomyza hirticornis feeds within stem of Jasione montana
Foodplant / miner
larva of Ophiomyia heringi mines stem of Jasione montana
Foodplant / parasite
telium of Puccinia campanulae parasitises live Jasione montana
Remarks: season: 6-8
Other: unusual host/prey
Foodplant / parasite
mainly hypophyllous, scattered or aggregated, blackish pycnidium of Septoria coelomycetous anamorph of Septoria jasiones parasitises live involucral bract of Jasione montana
Remarks: season: 8
Foodplant / feeds on
Strongylocoris luridus feeds on Jasione montana
Other: sole host/prey
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 9
Specimens with Barcodes: 14
Species With Barcodes: 1