Our lumbago is ripe everywhere: wild-growing species of lumbago. Yellow lumbago, open lumbago (sleep-grass) Yellow lumbago

Homeland - highlands of Central and Southern Europe.

Plant up to 20 cm tall. The flowers are white or yellow. Blooms from May to August.

Pulsatilla alpina variety (L.)Delarbre subsp. alpicola H. Neumayer= Pulsatilla alpina (L.)Delarbre subsp. austriaca Schwegler= Pulsatilla alba Rchb. It is found in the alpine belt of the mountains of Central and Eastern Europe. The flower is white with a bluish highlight on the outer side of the petals. The diameter of the flower is 3-3.5 cm. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is up to 10 cm, the peduncle is up to 20-25 cm. The plants bloom in thawed areas in the vicinity of myrtle-leaved rhododendron.

Photo by Yuri Markovsky

Siberia, Far East. On rocky, turfy slopes, in thickets of bushes, in mountain meadows, along river valleys, in larch and pine forests.

Pulsatilla ajanensis
Photo by Olga Bondareva

Perennial plants with vertical rhizomes. Stems are 5-12 cm high, lengthening to 20 cm when fruiting. Basal leaves on thin, almost bare petioles, develop during flowering; their plates are pinnate or almost trifoliate, with 1-3 pairs of lateral lobes, broadly ovate-rhombic or almost round in outline; the lobes are ovate-rhombic, not cut to the base into 3-4 sharp-toothed segments. The leaves have spathes with 2-3 divided lobes into narrow linear-lanceolate lobes. Peduncles are very short, densely hairy, and elongate with fruit. The flowers are erect or deflected, half-open, bell-shaped. Tepals are 2-3 cm long, purple, ovate, obtuse, reddish-haired on the outside. Fruit awns approx. 3 cm long, pinnately hairy, almost glabrous at the apex.

In Russia, it is found only on the Karelian Isthmus (Priozersky and Vyborg districts of the Leningrad region) and in the extreme southwest of Karelia along the northwestern coast of Lake Ladoga. On the Karelian Isthmus, it is distributed mainly north of the line Primorsk - Michurinskoye - Otradnoye; to the south, only isolated isolated locations are known - Orekhovo, Lembolovo, Kanneljärvi. Outside Russia, the range consists of several isolated parts, covering the mountains of Central Europe (mainly the Alps and Pyrenees), the east of the Central European Plain, the north of the Jutland Peninsula, the southern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, southwest Finland

Plant up to 30 cm tall, with straight or slightly curved stems. The basal leaves are trifoliate, leathery, and appear after flowering. The flowers are solitary, bell-shaped, up to 4 cm in diameter, white inside, light purple outside, bloom in the second half of May and bloom for 20-25 days. In nature it grows on grassy sunny hills, as well as in rare pine forests. It's difficult to separate her. Requires acidic soil with sand and pine litter. It should be planted under sparse pine trees. Easily propagated by seeds.

When grown from seeds, spring lumbago blooms at 5-8 years of age. Winter-hardy down to -32 degrees.

Photos by Yuri Markovsky

It is found in the Asian part of Russia, in Mongolia. It grows along the edges of larch forests, extends under the forest canopy, and is common on gentle mountain slopes.

It is a herbaceous perennial with palmately dissected leaves forming a large rosette. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is 25-30 cm, the peduncle is up to 45-50 cm. The first to appear are yellow erect flowers up to 6 cm in diameter. The whole plant in spring is shaggy-silky with dense silver-gray hairs. In terms of the nature of the pubescence, the Yakut lumbago stands apart - their hairs are brownish-yellow. The densely pubescent buds are especially impressive. In Yakutia, the local population uses yellowing lumbago for medicinal purposes: for joint diseases, tinctures are prepared from unopened flowers. Under natural conditions, there are hybrids of open and yellowing lumbago.

It lives in Crimea on the plateau-like treeless peaks of the Crimean Mountains, in meadows, in rock cracks and in the mountainous regions of Central Europe.

Basal leaves up to 10-15 cm high appear after flowering. The stem is erect, up to 30 cm (after flowering), densely pubescent with horizontally protruding hairs. The flowers are large, erect, on the outside, like the peduncles, densely shaggy, 5-6 cm tall, of varying intensity of purple color, lighter when flowering. It blooms in late April-May for 25-30 days, sometimes some plants bloom in the fall. The fruits ripen in June-July.

Photos by Zakutnaya Natalia

Plant of pine forests and dry sunny slopes of the western part of the forest zone of Russia, including the Leningrad region, the Urals, Western Siberia. Outside Russia, the plant is found in the Baltic states, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, southern Scandinavia, and central Europe.

Plant up to 30 cm tall. The basal leaves are pinnately dissected with twice pinnately divided segments, appearing during or after flowering. The flowers are bell-shaped, drooping, up to 5 cm in diameter, pale lilac, less often reddish or greenish-yellow. Blooms from the end of April for 25-30 days. Bears fruit. In the photo on the left Pulsatilla pratensis ssp.nigricans.

Photo on the left of Yuri Markovsky
Photo on the right of Svetlana Polonskaya

Grows wildly in Western Europe, except in the south.

Stems are 15-20 cm tall. The flowers are bell-shaped, blue, and bloom before the leaves appear. Blooms in April. Winter-hardy down to -23 degrees. In culture since 1530. It has numerous forms and varieties, for example: lovely(var. amoena hort.) - with large red-violet, bell-shaped flowers, very early blooming; dark red(var. atrosanguinea hort.)- leaves are finely dissected, flowers are dark red, drooping; big(var. grandis Gurke - the flowers are especially large; " Mrs van der Elst" - the flowers are pale pink.

Photo by Olga Bondareva	Common varietal lumbago. Photo EDSR	Common varietal lumbago. Photo by Olga Shibaleva
Pulsatilla vulgaris "Papageno" Photo of Shakhmanova Tatyana	Pulsatilla vulgaris "Papageno Black" Photo of Svetlana Polonskaya	Pulsatilla "Rote Glocke" Photo of Irina Mersiyanova

It is close in structure and ecology to the Tarao lumbago. Described by A.P. Khokhryakov. The plant is a perennial taproot plant. The bases of the shoots are covered with black fibrous remains of the petioles of dead leaves. Leaves develop simultaneously with flowers. The leaf blades are double-pinnate. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is 3-5 cm. Ten-centimeter peduncles and flowers are densely pubescent with yellowish hairs. The flowers are broadly or narrowly bell-shaped. The plant differs from the Torao lumbago in its thick leaves and blue and white tepals. Plants are found on the gravelly ridges of flat mountains in the vicinity of Magadan.

In a number of characteristics it is similar to the yellowing one and differs in blue-violet flowers and a wider range. Ecologically, it occupies the same position as the yellow lumbago, but more often climbs steep gravelly slopes, is found in mountain steppes, and is rarely part of high mountain steppes.

Perennial plants with vertical multi-headed rhizomes, shaggy-hairy when young. Stems 10-30 cm high. Basal leaves developing at the end of flowering or after flowering, on long petioles covered with soft, erect hairs. The leaf blades are rounded-reniform, hairy on the underside, consisting of three lobes, the middle one on a short (approx. 5 mm) petiole, the lateral ones sessile; each lobe is dissected into 2 or 3 lobes of the second order, which, in turn, are incised into numerous (30-80 in number), lanceolate, sharp lobes and teeth. The leaflets are densely hairy, dissected into narrow lanceolate, sometimes linear lobes. The flowers are blue-violet, broadly bell-shaped, later wide open. The tepals are oblong-ovate, shortly pointed or obtuse, hairy on the outside. The stamens are numerous, many times shorter than the tepals. Fruitlets are hairy with feathery awns, 2.5-3.5 cm long.

Photo on the left EDSR
Photo on the right of Olga Bondareva

It grows in the European part of Russia, in the south of Western Siberia, in Central and Western Europe. It has a fairly wide ecological range. It can grow in both moderately humid and fairly dry conditions, and tolerates moderately variable moisture. They are found in both poor and rich soils. Sensitive to light, especially in spring, during flowering.

A plant with hairy stems from 7-15 cm to 40-50 cm in height with whorls of palmately dissected leaves that appear after flowering; young leaves are very hairy, rounded-heart-shaped in outline. The flowers are up to 8 cm in diameter, blue-violet, initially broadly bell-shaped, later star-shaped, erect, very decorative. On well-developed bushes, up to 40-50 flowers bloom simultaneously. Blooms in April - May for 20-25 days.

The open lumbago reproduces mainly by seeds, but cases of vegetative propagation have been noted. Ripe fruits are buried in the soil with the help of an awn, which is hygroscopic and, under the influence of changes in air humidity, begins to twist and “screw” the fruit into the ground. They can germinate immediately after ripening. High germination rate is maintained for two years. Germination is above ground. The cotyledons are dark green, elongated, on small petioles that grow together into a short sheath. Soon the first three-lobed leaf with pronounced palmate venation appears, covered with sparse long hairs on top. The leaf blades that appear later, forming a small rosette, are densely pubescent with long silky hairs. Cotyledons persist until late autumn. Plants overwinter with green leaves. Further development occurs slowly.
Shooting is characterized by early flowering and early death of the generative organs, while the leaves vegetate until late autumn.

Distributed in the forest-steppe zone of Siberia and Mongolia.

Flowers range from blue-violet to blue. This coloration is found only in representatives of this species. The flowers are splayed-bell-shaped, 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter, slightly pubescent on the outside, drooping at first, then almost erect. Tepals with curved edges. The plant prefers substrates containing lime. In the forest belt it blooms from late April to late May, in the highlands - from the second half of May to mid-June. The basal, complex pinnately dissected leaves appear simultaneously with the flowers. The height of the basal rosette of leaves is 25-30 cm, the maximum length of the peduncle is 40-45 cm.

Mongolian cattle breeders value this plant as an early spring fattening feed, which quickly restores the strength of animals weakened during the winter.

Photo by Mikhail Polotnov

A low alpine plant with large lilac pubescent drooping flowers and trifoliate leaves.

Endemic to Sakhalin, grows on rocky alpine lawns and in sparse dry larch forests. Mesopsychrophyte.

Perennial plant 10-20 cm in height (after flowering the peduncle lengthens), leaves are basal. The plant has from 2 to 13 (23) flowers. The color of the “petals” on the inside is darker, burgundy. In the center of the flower, bright yellow stamens and lilac stigmas of pistils stand out beautifully. The diameter of the flower is about 3 cm. The flowers and involucres are covered with thick reddish pubescence. It blooms in April - early May, until the leaves are fully expanded; the seeds ripen in June.

In SakhKNII since 1965, planted in an open place on the ridges of the first section. It remains decorative for 5-6 years (Fig. 27, b), then the plants begin to gradually fall out. The height of the plants is slightly greater than in nature - 20-23 cm. After the end of flowering, the peduncles lengthen to 30 cm. The diameter of the flower is 3-3.5 cm, the length of the tepals is 2.1 - 2.3 cm. The number of flowers on the plant is 7 -18. It blooms in April-May, for three weeks. Flowering is often interrupted by falling snow. Propagated by seeds. It tolerates transplantation well.

An interesting early spring plant for planting in open, well-drained areas in parks and rocky gardens. Noted by Japanese botanists is P. sugawarai Miyabe et Tatew. very close and has no clear differences.

Photo on the left of Tatyana Rozantseva
Photo on the right of Dubova Galina

A mountain plant, rare, found only in the Kuril Islands. Employees of the botanical garden managed to examine the habitat of this rare species in the upper third of Mount Burevestnik on Iturup Island, one of the largest in the Kuril ridge. The plants were found on the southern slope of one of the large rocky screes next to the snowfield. The slope at an altitude of 1300 m above sea level consisted of turf areas and scree. Along the edges of the scree, the lumbago is abundant, differs more large sizes compared to specimens growing in turf. The lumbago also grows in the grass between low-growing alder, golden and Kamchatka rhododendrons.

A perennial plant 15-23 cm in height, the diameter of the rosette of leaves is 15-23 cm, the leaves are dissected into small linear lobes up to 2 mm wide, the number of flowers on the plant is 1 - 6, in some specimens - up to 20. An adult plant in nature has 50-70 vegetative rosette shoots. It blooms in May, the seeds ripen at the end of June.

In SakhKNII since 1963, growing in open areas on ridges. It forms a lush rosette of leaves, but the flowers are single (sessile). Seeds do not set. It should be tested in cultivation on more suitable light sandy and well-drained soils and with regular moisture.

The experience of growing Tarao lumbago at the GSB RAS gave positive results. In April-May the plants bloomed annually. White, slightly bluish flowers with a diameter of 3-5 cm bloomed above the soil surface. Double-pinnate leaves began to grow after the plant had flowered.

Photo by Kirill Kravchenko

Grows in the Dauro-Mongolian steppes.

Perennial plants with thick multi-headed vertical rhizomes. Stems 5-35 cm high. The basal leaves grow simultaneously with the appearance of flowers, their plates are three times pinnate, generally almost ovoid, the second-order lobes are dissected into long and narrow, linear and sharp segments. Petioles almost equal to the plate or slightly longer or shorter than it. The involucre is broadly campanulate, pinnately divided almost to the base into linear and entire-margined lobes or 2-3-toothed lobes at the apex. The number of lobes and teeth in the wrapper is from 20 to 40. The pedicels are initially short and do not come out of the wrapper; when fruiting, they become much longer. The flowers are almost erect, half-open, blue-violet. The tepals are elongated-elliptical or almost lanceolate, 2-3 times longer than the stamens. The fruits are spindle-shaped, fluffy, with long feathery columns, 4-5 cm long. It blooms in April-May, the flowers appear simultaneously with the leaves.

Photo by EDSR.