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Sun-loving Clausia (Latin Clausia aprica) - a herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Clausia (Latin Clausia), belonging to the Cabbage family (Latin Brassicaceae). The name has synonyms such as
Clausia sun or
Sun clause … In the wild, not everyone will pay attention to the sun-loving Clausia with her short stature, modest small leaves and few-flowered inflorescences. But the cultivated species of this plant are very picturesque and look great on alpine slides or in the foreground of a mixborder.
What's in your name
The generic Latin name "Clausia" keeps the memory of a Russian chemist who also loved to study botany. The name of this scientist is Karl-Ernst Klaus (1796 - 1864).
On the specific epithet "aprica", the Google translator from the Latin language suggests the word "sunny". Since nothing sunny is visible in the plant itself, including in its inflorescences, painted in purple shades, we conclude that the translation "sun-loving" reflects the nature of this plant much better and does not contradict the meaning of the Latin word.
Description
It is not for nothing that botanists called Klausia sun-loving that, because a short perennial plant grows on rocky mountain slopes, either in meadows or in light forests, where the sun is available for its simple stems from 10 to 30 centimeters high.
Short-petiolate oblong leaves form a dense basal rosette, which is the first to appear in a newly born plant. Further, an erect stem appears from the rosette of leaves, which can sometimes branch in its upper part. The stem is covered with sessile small oblong leaves, and also, along with the leaves, simple long and glandular short hairs that protect the modest plant from invasions of the enemy in the face of harmful insects.
In the wild, the plant cannot boast of multi-flowered inflorescences, showing modest clusters of small 4-petal flowers with a lilac-purple color. Delicate petals are protected by sepals. Cultivars are distinguished by larger leaves and more multi-flowered inflorescences. Bloom lasts from May to June, providing bees with nectar while many more plants are just getting ready to open their flower buds.
The fruit of the sun-loving Clausia is the bare narrow straight pods, the length of which varies from 3 to 6 centimeters.
Red Data Books of Russia
Wildlife does not spoil the sun-loving Clausia, where more assertive and strong plants force her out of the territories, and therefore her name appears in the Red Books of a number of subjects of our country.
Sun-loving Clausia moves to man-made flower beds
But in Siberia, Klausia sun-loving interested the biologist, Marina Aleksandrovna Martynova, who decided to investigate the nature of an attractive wild plant in order to improve its external performance without violating the natural data presented to him by the Creator of all life on Earth.
With the sensitive assistance of Marina Aleksandrovna, Klausia, the sun-loving one, was transformed and began to willingly move to summer cottages and garden areas, keeping up with other ornamental plants that prefer to decorate our planet in spring and early summer. With her fragrant delicate flowers, Klausia attracts bees by sharing nectar with them in exchange for pollination of her bisexual flowers.
A stunted plant, accustomed to living on rocky slopes, on alpine hills and in rocky gardens, where the soil does not provoke the formation of stagnant water, which badly affects the health of the newly-born beauty, looks especially good. Although for more abundant flowering, additional watering of the flower garden is welcome.
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