Reseda lutea
Reseda lutea
Muhabbet çiçeği
Annual to perennial herbs with stems erect or ascending to 70 cm. Lowermost leaves sometimes entire, usually with all leaves narrow, tri- or pinnati-fid. Sepals 5-6, persistent and becoming twisted in fruit. Petals 6, yellow, the limbs trilobed, and with the lateral lobes lunulate, entire, crenulate and occasionally more deeply divided into irregular segments; the midlobes shorter and entire. Capsules cylindrical, sometimes ovate or even subglobose, or triquetrous, glabrous. Seeds yellow to black, shiny, ± smooth. Fl. 4-8. Ubiquitous, roadsides, fields, ditches, opell stony hillsides, etc., s.l-2000 m.
1. Capsules always erect var.lutea
1. At least the lowermost capsules pendulous when fully ripe var. nutans
