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Lagurus (lat. Lagurus) - a flowering plant from the Cereals family. Its second name is haretail.
Description
Lagurus is a low-growing, multi-stemmed herbaceous annual, the height of erect stems of which can vary from ten to ninety-five centimeters. Its leaves are lanceolate, pubescent and soft, and its inflorescences look like incredibly thick grayish-white panicles with very soft pubescence. The length of these panicles ranges from one and a half to four centimeters, and their width can reach four centimeters. And you can admire the flowering of the lagurus from March until July!
By the way, both the stems and the leaves of the lagurus boast a very attractive silvery-green color!
The genus of this plant is represented by one and only species - the lagurus (haretail) ovoid.
Where grows
The Mediterranean is considered to be the homeland of the lagurus. Now, this plant is especially common in North African territories (in Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria), in the Caucasus (in particular, in Azerbaijan), in Western Asia (in Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus) and, of course, in a number of European territories (France, Spain, Croatia, Albania, Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, Greece, etc.). This plant feels best on dry rocky soils in regions characterized by a warm climate.
Usage
The lagurus is especially decorative during the flowering period, and the most fertile places for planting it are sandy coastal soils. This plant is prized mainly for its wonderful fluffy decorative inflorescences, panicles.
In garden floriculture, this handsome man is quite actively used to create all kinds of rocky compositions, as well as to decorate mixborders, flower beds and alpine slides. In addition, it will look equally good both in mixed flower beds (lagurus is very cool shading yellow asters and chrysanthemums, as well as a great variety of other equally bright colors!), And in single plantings. A real find for landscape designers! However, most often lagurus is still grown for cutting - it has proven itself well in dry (winter) bouquets! The dried flowers are really excellent! That is, this wonderful plant is great for use in both landscape design and floristry!
Growing and caring
Lagurus can be grown both in partial shade and in areas well-lit by the sun - it is both light-loving and at the same time very shade-tolerant. As for the soils, this plant is especially partial to good garden soils. In general, lagurus is able to grow on completely different soils.
This handsome man is quite hygrophilous, therefore, when dry weather is established, he will need regular watering. Also, several times throughout the season, it should be fed with complex mineral fertilizers. And in order to make the inflorescences as lush as possible, before flowering it must also be pampered with nitrogenous dressings - this is done twice, observing a ten-day interval.
Since the lagurus boasts a very high cold resistance, no additional shelter is required for it. However, in the middle lane, he does not winter at all. But he is very unpretentious in care!
Lagurus is propagated by seeds, which are planted either in April for seedlings, or in May directly into the ground. In the latter case, when planting lagurus, it is necessary to maintain a distance of ten to fifteen centimeters.
