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词条 Ceratostigma
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  1. Selected species

  2. Cultivation and uses

  3. References

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|image = Ceratostigma plumbaginoides0.jpg
|image_caption = Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
|regnum = Plantae
|unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
|unranked_classis = Eudicots
|unranked_ordo = Core eudicots
|ordo = Caryophyllales
|familia = Plumbaginaceae
|subfamilia = Plumbaginoideae
|genus = Ceratostigma
|genus_authority = Bunge
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
|synonyms = Valoradia Hochst.
|}}

Ceratostigma ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|s|ɛr|ə|t|oʊ-|ˈ|s|t|ɪ|ɡ|m|ə|,_|s|ᵻ|ˌ|r|æ|-}};[1]{{refn|{{cite web |url=http://www.finegardening.com/pronunciation-guide/c?page=3 |title=Pronunciation Guide |website=Fine Gardening |accessdate=2016-01-23 }}}}), or leadwort, plumbago, is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. Common names are shared with the genus Plumbago.

They are flowering herbaceous plants, subshrubs, or small shrubs growing to {{convert|0.3|-|1|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 1–9 cm long, usually with a hairy margin. Some of the species are evergreen, others deciduous. The flowers are produced in a compact inflorescence, each flower with a five-lobed corolla; flower colour varies from pale to dark blue to red-purple. The fruit is a small bristly capsule containing a single seed.

Selected species

  • Ceratostigma abyssinicum (Hochst.) Schwein. & Asch.
  • Ceratostigma griffithii C.B.Clarke
  • Ceratostigma minus Stapf ex Prain
  • Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Bunge)
  • Ceratostigma ulicinum Prain
  • Ceratostigma willmottianum Stapf

Cultivation and uses

Plants of this genus are valued in the garden for their late summer flower colour and their autumn leaf colour. The following varieties have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017):[2]

  • C. plumbaginoides[3]
  • C. willmottianum[4][5]
  • C. willmottianum 'Forest Blue'[6]

Ceratostigma has been listed as one of the 38 plants that are used to prepare Bach flower remedies,[7] a kind of alternative medicine promoted for its effect on mental and emotional health.

References

{{commons category}}{{Wikispecies|Ceratostigma (Plumbaginaceae)|Ceratostigma}}
  • Flora of China: Ceratostigma
  • Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan.
1. ^Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
2. ^{{cite web | url= https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf | title = AGM Plants - Ornamental | date = July 2017 | page = 17 | publisher = Royal Horticultural Society | accessdate = 24 January 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=RHS Plant Selector - Ceratostigma plumbaginoides|url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=2300|accessdate=14 June 2013}}
4. ^Named to honour Ellen Willmott.
5. ^{{cite web|title=RHS Plant Selector - Ceratostigma willmottianum|url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=370|accessdate=14 June 2013}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=RHS Plant Selector - Ceratostigma willmottianum 'Forest Blue'|url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=5098|accessdate=14 June 2013}}
7. ^{{cite book|author=D. S. Vohra|title=Bach Flower Remedies: A Comprehensive Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icG8onA0ys8C&pg=PR3|accessdate=2 September 2013|date=1 June 2004|publisher=B. Jain Publishers|isbn=978-81-7021-271-3|page=3}}
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2 : Ceratostigma|Caryophyllales genera

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