Scientific name:

Bupleurum fruticosum

Vernacular name:

Hare's-ear, Shrubby

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Shrubby Hare's-ear

Scientific name: Bupleurum fruticosum L.

Diagnostic features
Evergreen shrub to 2.5m, but often much less due to annual frost-damage.
Leaves oblong to narrowly obovate, with 1 main vein, most more than 4 x 1.5cm.
Bracts several but often fallen before fruiting, ovate to obovate, shorter than rays.
Rays 5-many.
Fruits 4.5-6mm, with prominent, slender ridges, smooth.

Chromosome number: (2n=14).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized.

Distribution
Grown in gardens, naturalized on roadside and railway banks since before 1909; East Suffolk, West Kent, South Devon and Worcs; South Europe.

This species is keyed out on Page 918 in the Text Key.

Tutin, T.G. 1980. Umbellifers of the British Isles. BSBI Handbook No. 2. Botanical Society of the British Isles, London. Illustrated by Ann Davies.

Bupleurum fruticosum 2 (Flowering habit, picture taken in France by C.A. Stace)
Bupleurum fruticosum a (Habit and fruit details, drawing by A. Davies in Tutin, 1980; BSBI Handbook 2.)

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