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Hesperis matronalis L.

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Hesperis matronalis L.
Hesperis matronalis L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Hesperis matronalis L.
species
Hesperis matronalis

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Cruciferae
Hesperis
matronalis

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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Hesperis matronalis L.

Biennial or perennial up to 1 m tall; rootstock woody; hairs simple and branched. Lvs ovate, hairy, simple, toothed, tapering to petiole; lower lvs to 50 × 10 cm, petiolate; upper lvs smaller, narrower, very shortly petiolate. Racemes 10-20 cm long. Sepals hairy with scarious or pinkish margins, 5-7 × c. 2 mm. Petals white to violet, 12-15 × 4-5 mm. Silique curved, 60-100 × 1.5-2 mm, erect on spreading pedicels 10-20-(30) mm long; valves ± glabrous, constricted between the seeds. Seeds brown, 3-4 mm long.

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Hesperis matronalis L.
Hesperis matronalis L.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Hesperis matronalis L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Hesperis matronalis L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Hesperis matronalis L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Hesperis matronalis L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Hesperis matronalis L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Hesperis matronalis L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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1 January 2000
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