Scientific name:

Bupleurum falcatum

Vernacular name:

Hare's-ear, Sickle-leaved

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Sickle-leaved Hare's-ear

Scientific name: Bupleurum falcatum L.

Diagnostic features
Herbaceous ± erect perennial to 1m.
Leaves oblanceolate to linear-falcate, with 5 main veins, the lower usually more than 5 x 1cm.
Bracts several, linear to lanceolate, shorter than rays.
Rays 5-c.11.
Fruits 2.5-3.5mm, with slender, prominent ridges, smooth.

Chromosome number: (2n=16, 26, 28, 32).

Habitat
Possibly native; damp roadsides, ditches, hedgebanks and field-borders.

Distribution
1 locality in South Essex, discovered 1831, eradicated 1956, then reintroduced from different source, rarely naturalized in Central & North England.

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 falcatum 2 (Flowering habit, picture taken in cultivation by C. Gibson)
Bupleurum falcatum 3 (Flowering habit, picture taken in Belgium by R. van der Meijden)
Bupleurum falcatum 4 (Flowering habit, picture taken in Belgium by R. van der Meijden)
Bupleurum falcatum a (Habit and fruit details, drawing by A. Davies in Tutin, 1980; BSBI Handbook 2.)

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