Reseda (plant)
Reseda | |
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Reseda lutea (wild mignonette) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Brassicales |
Family: | Resedaceae |
Genus: | Reseda L. |
Species | |
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Reseda
Other common names include weld or dyer's rocket (for R. luteola), and bastard rocket.
Cultivation and uses
Propagation is by seed, which is surface-sown directly into the garden or grass verge. The plant does not take well to transplanting and should not be moved after sowing.
Mignonette flowers are extremely fragrant. It is grown for the sweet
Charles Darwin used R. odorata in his studies of self-fertilised plants, which he documented in The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.
Species
As of March 2014[update] The Plant List recognises 41 accepted species (including infraspecific names):[4]
- Reseda alba L. White Mignonette
- subsp. myriosperma (Murb.) Maire
- Reseda arabica Boiss.
- Reseda aucheri Boiss.
- Reseda barrelieri Bertol. ex Müll.Arg.
- Reseda bucharica Litv.
- Reseda complicata Bory Glaucous Mignonette
- Reseda decursiva Forssk.
- Reseda ellenbeckii Perkins
- Reseda glauca L.
- Reseda globulosa Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Reseda gredensis (Cutanda & Willk.) Müll.Arg.
- Reseda inodora Rchb.
- Reseda jacquinii Rchb.
- subsp. litigiosa (Sennen & Pau) Abdallah & de Wit
- Reseda lanceolata Lag.
- Reseda lutea L. Wild Mignonette
- subsp. neglecta (Müll.Arg.) Abdallah & de Wit
- Reseda luteola L. Weld
- subsp. biaui (Pit.) Maire
- Reseda media Lag.
- Reseda minoica Martín-Bravo & Jim.Mejías
- Reseda muricata C.Presl
- Reseda odorata L. Common Mignonette
- Reseda orientalis (Müll.Arg.) Boiss.
- Reseda paui Valdés Berm. & Kaercher
- subsp. almijarensis Valdés Berm. & Kaercher
- Reseda phyteuma L. Corn Mignonette
- subsp. collina (Müll.Arg.) Batt.
- Reseda pruinosa Delile
- Reseda scoparia Brouss. ex Willd. Canaries Mignonette
- Reseda stenostachya Boiss.
- Reseda stricta Pers.
- Reseda suffruticosa Loefl.
- subsp. barrelieri (Bertol. ex Muller) Fern. Casas, Molero & J. Pujadas
- Reseda tymphaea Hausskn.
- subsp. anatolica (Boiss.) Abdallah & de Wit
- Reseda undata L.
- subsp. gayana (Boiss.) Valdés Berm.
- subsp. leucantha (Hegelm. ex Lange) Aránega ex Valdés Berm.
- Reseda urnigera Webb
- Reseda villosa Coss.
- Reseda virgata Boiss. & Reut.
- Reseda viridis Balf.f.
References
- ^ "reseda". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "mignonette". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Daniel Zohary, Maria Hopf and Ehud Weiss, Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Domesticated Plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin, 4th edition (Oxford: University Press, 2012), p. 209
- ^ "Reseda". The Plant List. Retrieved 31 March 2014.