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Berardia lanuginosa

Bérard's Thistle · Woolly Berardia

Family AsteraceaeGenus Berardia

A flat rosette of thick gray woolly leaves pressed to a dry bank, with one yellow thistle-like flower head at its center
The whole plantDouchet QuentinCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Flower
Pale yellowRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
France, ItalyGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1996

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 21 days to germinate.

75% germination in 7–21 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1996 · 1st Supplement, Berardia p. 24Public domain
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Berardia (Asteraceae). B. subacaulis germ. 70D(3/4 in 1-3 w). About 90% of the seed coats were empty, many due to having been eaten out by a weevil.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement, 1st Supplement, Berardia p. 24. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

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