Butomus umbellatus L.
  • Sp. Pl. : 372 (1753)
  • Luachair dhearg


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Butomus umbellatus L. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000762573. Accessed on: 05 Jun 2023'

General Information

Leaves twisted, 30-120 cm × 3-10 mm, apex acuminate. Scapes terete, ca. 70 cm; bracts ovate, apex acuminate. Flowers numerous; pedicels 4-10 cm. Sepals pinkish white, greenish outside along midvein. Petals pinkish white. Filaments flat-tened, broadened toward base. Styles curved. Seeds small. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 20 or 40, with aneuploid counts of 16, 22, 24, 26, 28, 39, 42.

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    Herbs, to 150 cm. Leaves linear, to 2.7 m. Inflorescences with 20--25 flowers; scape to 150 cm. Flowers 2--2.5 cm wide; pedicels 4--10 cm; outer tepals elliptic, 6--7.5 × 2--2.5 mm, apex acute, inner tepals oblanceolate, 9--11.5 × 4.5--6 mm, apex obtuse, erose; filaments 3--4.5 mm, anthers 1 mm. Follicles 1 cm.

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    A glabrous, aquatic perennial herb with horizontal rhizomes; scapes (30-) 50-90 (rarely-150) cm long, erect; roots fibrous. Leaves all radical, usually about as long as the scapes, linear, ensiform, sheathing at the base, 6-9 mm broad. Inflorescence umbellate, cymose with an involucre of lanceolate-acuminate bracts and bracteoles; bracts 2 or 3, upto 25 mm long, 6-8 mm broad; bracteoles numerous, less than 10 mm long, 2-3 mm broad. Flowers pink, pedicellate; pedicels (3-) 5-9 cm long. Perianth segments 6. biseriate. Sepal-like segments obovate. c. 17-veined, keeled, 9-13 mm long and 6-8 mm broad; petal-like segments broadly obovate, c. 13-veined, 9-15 mm long, 8 mm broad. Stamens usually 9, rarely 5 or numerous; filaments linear, usually dilated at the base, variable in length, free, slightly connate at the base; anthers basifixed, 2-celled, ovate to oblong (linear-oblong in young flowers), 2-4 mm long. Carpels 6-9 or many, each 3-5.5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, superior, free or somewhat connate basally, obovate; style simple, short, terminal, persistent; stigma ventral, curved. Ovules numerous, anatropous, minute on reticulate parietal placentas. Fruit a many-seeded, beaked follicle, obovate, 7-9 mm long, 2-3.5 mm broad. Seeds numerous, minute, 0.2-0.4 mm long, oblong with thin testa and straight embryo.

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    Lvs basal, erect, floating, or submersed in water up to several m deep, linear, to 1 m, 5–10 mm wide; scape 1–1.5+ m; fls numerous, 2–2.5 cm wide, on pedicels 5–10 cm; 2n=20, 26, 39. Native of Eurasia, thoroughly established on shores and riverbanks in the St. Lawrence R. valley and in Lake Champlain, and more recently spread inland, even to N.D., S.D., Mont., and Ida. June–Aug.

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    Morphology

    60–150 cm hoch, im Wasser stehend. Stängel rund. Blätter grundständig, flutend, lineal, bis über 1 m lang, zuunterst ca. 1 cm breit, 3kantig, nur zuoberst flach (vgl. Alisma gramineum, Nr. 2371). Blütenstand doldig, bis 30blütig, von

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    35-185 cm boyunda, tüysüz, çokyıllık rizomlu bitkiler. Rizom yatay, 6-11 mm çapında. Yapraklar tabanda, çiçekdurumundan kısa, şeritsi, üç köşeli, dik, almaşlı, 30-175 × (0,3-)0,5-1,1 cm, kenarı düz, ucu sipsivri. Çiçekdurumu yalancı şemsiye, 35-185 cm boyunda; şemsiyeler 5-36 çiçekli; çiçek sapı en çok 10 cm uzunluğunda. Tepaller 6 tane, 3’ü dış, 3’ü iç halkada; dış tepaller iç tepallerden biraz kısa, sivri, dış yüzeyi yeşilimsi bordo, iç yüzeyler açık pembe, belirgin koyu damarlı, 11-14,5 × 6-8 mm; iç tepaller açık pembe veya beyaz, bordo damarlı, tersyumurtamsı, ucu küt, 12,5-16 × 11-13 mm; erkek organlar 9 tane; başçıklar siyahımsı- mor, 2-3 mm uzunluğunda, filâmentler beyaz, 7-9 mm; ginekeum 6 ayrık karpelli, karpeller 6-8 mm uzunluğunda, sitilus düz ilâ az çok kıvrık. Meyve folikül, 12 × 6 mm.

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    • Ecology

      6–7. Ufer von stehenden und langsam fliessenden Gewässern, kollin. M, J.

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      Distribution Map

       
      • Native distribution
      Found in
      • Europe Northern Europe Ireland

      Nationally Preferred Names

      NameLanguageCountry
      Luachair dheargIrishIE
      BataklıkgülüTurkishTR
      Flowering rushEnglishIE

      Other Local Names

      NameLanguageCountry
      SchwanenblumeGermanCH
      Butome en ombelleFrenchCH
      Giunco fioritoItalianCH

       Information From

      Butomaceae
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      World Flora Online Data. 2021.
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      'Flora of North America @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
      • B Flora of North America Association
      Flora Helvetica – Illustrierte Flora der Schweiz
      http://www.flora-helvetica.ch
      Flora Helvetica – Illustrierte Flora der Schweiz, Konrad Lauber, Gerhart Wagner, Andreas Gygax. Haupt Verlag 2018.
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      Flora of China @ efloras.org
      'Flora of China @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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      The Illustrated Flora of Turkey
      Güner, A., Kandemir, A., Menemen, Y., Yıldırım, H., Aslan, S., Ekşi, G., Güner, I. ve Çimen, A.Ö. (edlr.) (2018). Resimli Türkiye Florası, Cilt 2. ANG Vakfı Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi Yayınları. İstanbul.
      • F Resimli Türkiye Florası (the Illustrated Flora of Turkey).
      Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern US and Canada
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      Irish Vernacular Names
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      World Flora Online Data. 2017.
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