Type of Flowers
Scabiosa: Scabiosa is a genus inwards the teasel Family Dipsacaceae of flowering plants. Many of the species inwards this genus bring mutual names that include the discussion scabious,however around plants unremarkably known equally scabious are currently classified inwards related genera such equally Knautia together with Succisa, at to the lowest degree around of these were formerly placed inwards Scabiosa. Another mutual advert for members of this genus is pincushion flowers.
Members of this genus are native to Europe together with Asia. Some species of Scabiosa, notably minor scabious (S. columbaria) together with Mediterranean sweetness scabious (S. atropurpurea) bring been developed into cultivars for gardeners.
Scabiosa plants bring many minor flowers of soft lavander blue, lilac or creamy white color borne inwards a unmarried caput on a tall stalk. Scabious flowers are nectar rich together with attract a multifariousness of insects including moths together with butterflies such equally the Six-spot Burnet. Scabiosa species are too used equally nutrient plants yesteryear the larvae of around Lepidoptera species including Grey Pug.
In 1782, a mysterious pale xanthous scabious, called Scabiosa trenta, was described yesteryear Belsazar Hacquet, an Austrian physician, botanist, together with mountaineer, inwards his operate Plantae alpinae Carniolicae. It became a keen rootage of inspiration for afterwards botanists together with mountaineers discovering the Julian Alps, peculiarly Julius Kugy. The Austrian botanist Anton Kerner von Marilaun afterwards proved Belsazar Hacquet had non establish a novel species, but a specimen of the already known submediterranean Cephalaria leucantha.
