Scientific name:

Bupleurum baldense

Vernacular name:

Hare's-ear, Small

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Small Hare's-ear

Scientific name: Bupleurum baldense Turra

Diagnostic features
Erect annual to 25cm, usually much less than 10cm.
Leaves linear to very narrowly oblanceolate, with 3-5 main veins, the lower mostly more than 2cm by less than 0.3mm.
Bracts c.4, longer than shortest rays, lanceolate.
Rays 1-4, unequal.
Fruits 1.5-2.5mm, scarcely ridged, smooth.

Chromosome number: (2n=16).

Habitat
Native; barish ground on fixed dunes and cliffs by sea.

Distribution
Very local in Channel Islands, South Devon and East Sussex, rare casual elsewhere.

This species is keyed out on Page 919 in the Text Key.

Note
Often very dwarfed and superficially resembling Euphorbia exigua, with which it sometimes grows.

Family Apiaceae
Subfamily Apioideae
Genus Bupleurum
Species Bupleurum baldense

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

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