Bupleurum fruticosum L. Shrubby Hare’s Ear
NOMENCLATURE
Bupleurum: see B. baldense.
fruticosum: shrubby (frutex, icis : shrub)
UKWildflowers Picture Link to Bupleurum fruticosum
BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
TYPE : glabrous, evergreen shrub. N. STEMS : solid, smooth. Young purplish. HEIGHT : 250cm.
LEAVES : 9cm, simple, oblanceolate to oblong ovate mucronate, pale beneath, sessile,
cartilaginous margin, stout midrib, numerous slender pinnate veins, close reticulum of
fine veins between. Cotyledons narrowed at base, no petiole.
UMBELS : 7-10 cm diam. Compound, 3-25 subequal smooth rays 2cm
long. Peduncle > than rays, slender Hermaphrodite.
BRACTS : 5-6 decidious, ovate to obovate, 5-7 longtitudinal veins + cross
veins. Bracteoles 5-6 decidious, obovate, 4-7 veined.
FLOWERS : yellow. Styles form stylopodium. Fl.7-8.
FRUIT : 7mm, oblong-elliptical. Compressed laterally, smooth. Commisure broad. Mericarp
with, slender, prominent, narrowly winged ridges. Carpophore present. Pedicels 5mm.
Styles 0.3mm, divergent. Stigma truncate. 2n=14.
DISTRIBUTION : grown for ornament. Naturalised in Malvern Hills,
Kent & Devon, Worcester. Native to S. Europe & N.W. Africa.
BSBI Distribution Map for Bupleurum fruticosum (UK)
GARDEN USES : Sow seeds in autumn/spring. Take cuttings in Sept, place in warm frame.
EXTERNAL LINKS FOR Bupleurum fruticosum
These links to trusted websites and institutions may provide in depth or additional information regards cultivation, chemistry, edibility, images etc. for the species. Links last updated Aug 2012.
Plants For a Future (UK) Rec of Natural Products Journal (ITA)
National Center for Biotechnology Info (USA)
Online Guide To Umbelliferae Of The British Isles' Compiled By J.M.Burton 2002